LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Barque
On the morning of the 30th March was reported that a barque was ashore on Cymeran Beach, with all hands in the fore rigging, the vessel having sunk, and her mainmast having been carried away during a heavy S.S.W.
gale. The...
A Steamer (1)
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. — 6th September, 1939. Information had been received that a steamer appeared to have blown up seven miles off Shoreham Harbour, but although the lifeboat made a wide search she found nothing.—Rewards, £7...
(5)—Going to Work.—Frank Bloom and Les Wall Rowing Out to Their Oyster Boat.
(5)—Going to work.—Frank Bloom and Les Wall rowing out to their oyster boat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Flamborough, Yorkshire - At 2.16 p.m. on 2nd September, 1967, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that six people were cut off by the tide on a ledge at Thornwick'bay, one mile north west of the life-boat station. The life-boat...
Ocean
CLACTON-ON-SEA.—The Albert Edward Life-boat put off at about 7.30 P.M. on the 14th October, in reply to signals of distress, during a very strong N.W. wind and very rough sea. After cruising about for some time the schooner Ocean, of Goole,...
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Fowey, Cornwall.—While the motor life-boat C.D.E.C. was out to the help of the woman who had fallen from Gribben Head on the 7th of August, a wireless message was received at her station from the Polruan coastguard at 5.50 that some boys had...
Fishing Boats
TEIGNMOUTH.—On the 14th October, at about 4.45 P.M., three fishing-boatswere seen to be making "_for the harbour.
A strong S.W. wind was blowing at the time, and a heavy sea was breaking on the bar, and as the water...
Norfolk maritime heroes and legends
Norfolk maritime heroes and legends
by Mark Nicholls
Review by Carol Waterkeyn
Mark Nicholls is an awardwinning journalist with the Eastern Daily Press and a critically acclaimed defence correspondent...
Category: Articles
Gypsy
At 7.30 a.m. on 12th April, 1970, the coastguard reported that a sailing yacht three miles north ofPoint Lynas was in difficulties. The life-boat Watkin Williams was launched at 7.40. There was a south easterly gale with a rough sea. The...
The Norwegian Mail Steamer Bessheim
THE splendid services carried out by the crew of the Tynemouth Motor Life-boat Henry Vernon, on the occasion of the wreck of the hospital ship Rohilla off Whitby, in 1914, are probably still fresh in the memory of our readers, and the fine...