LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Memories of the Sea and the Life-Boat Service
It was intended to resume the series of " Honorary Workers of the Institution," in which twelve articles have already been published, the last appearing in TheLifeboat for August, 1927 —with an article on the work of Mr. Ernest...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Fulgens & The S.S. Sherwood
Shortly aiter 9 A.M.
on the 1 st August, a steamer was observed about one and a half miles N.N.E. of Palling in a sinking condition, and the crew of the No. 1 Life-boat, 54iA West Norfolk Rec/iment were promptly sum- moned,...
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Fleetwood, Lancashire. —During the afternoon of Whit Sunday, the 16th of May, 1948, a yacht could he seen on Black Scar Bank apparently in diffi- culties. She made no distress signals, but at 5.15 in the evening, the coast- guard reported...
Polly Johnson and Scarron
Humber, Yorkshire. — During the afternoon of the 27th August the Mablethorpe coastguard reported,through the Spurn Point signal station, that two trawlers had been in collision ten miles north of the Humber and that one of them was sinking....
Ross Lion
Tynemouth, Northumberland. •— At 11.30 on the night of the 16th of April, 1957, the coastguard telephoned to say a trawler had reported that one of her crew had injured his hand badly and urgently needed hospital treat- ment. The...
An American Sabre Jet aircraft
Sheringham, Norfolk. At 5.5 on the evening of the 30th of October, 1957, a message was received that a pilot of an American Sabre Jet aircraft had baled out thirty miles north of Cromer. At 5.30 the life-boat Foresters Centenary was...
An Avenger Aircraft
The Lizard, Cornwall.—At 2.23 on the afternoon of the 31st of March, 1955, the life-boat honorary secretary saw an Avenger aircraft, with a crew of four, from the Royal Naval Air Station at Culdrose, crash into the sea half a mile south-west...
Siberite
Stromness, Orkneys.—At 5.15 A.M. on the 16th March the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that Wick Radio had reported a vessel ashore on Hoy. She was the steam trawler Siberite, of Hull, homeward bound from the fishing grounds, with a crew of...
A Canoe
Valiant attempt HM COASTGUARD asked the deputy launching authority of Bangor ILB station to stand by at 1135 on Sunday May 20; a canoist had capsized half a mile north of the harbour and another canoist was trying to bring him in. The DLA...
Margaret and Elizabeth
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—On the 6th February, at about 9 P.M., while a whole gale was blowing from S.E. with a blinding snowstorm, a trawler entered the harbour and reported that she had passed a sunken schooner, the water being several feet...