LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Life-Boat Centenarian
MR. WILLIAM FURBER, of Littlestone, near New Romney, Kent, celebrated his 100th birthday on the 16th of July.
He served in the Navy and then became a coastguard. At the same time he was a member of the life-boat crew at New...
Category: Articles
Blossom
Amble, Northumberland.—At 7.30 on the evening of the 12th of July, 1956, the coastguard reported that the fish- ing vessel Blossom, of Wick, had broken down in Druridge Bay. The life-boat City of Bradford II, on temporary duty at the station...
Maureen
LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY TILL FISHING VESSEL REFLOATS Stronsay, Orkneys. At 5.20 on the afternoon of the 17th May, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing boat was ashore at Torness Point. At 5.46 the life-boat J.J.K.S...
Jessie
FOLKESTONE.—The fishing boat Jessie, of Folkestone, left the port on the afternoon of Sunday, 26th August, and after a rough night at sea was observed on the following morning brought up off Seabrook. At 11.20 the Life-boat /. McOonnel...
Miss Evans
.—The steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland rescued four hands from the schooner Miss^Evans, of Aberystwith, during a strong W.N.W. gale and very heavy sea on the 19th February. The vessel was in the outer roads when her anchor commenced to...
Longest Winter Service
THE annual award of a case of rum to the life-boat crew which has carried out the longest winter service has been made by the Sugar Manufacturers' Association (of Jamaica) Limited to the crew of the Islay, Hebrides, lifeboat, for a...
Category: Services
Sarah Ann
On the 17th February, shortly before 11 P.M., whilst the schooner Sarah Ann, of Fowey, was bound from London to Bridport, with a cargo of cement, she stranded on the Newcombe Bar Her signals for assis- tance were seen by the Coastguard who...
Osiris
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 10.50 on the night of the 30th of July, 1956, the Formby coastguard rang up to say that the crew of two of the yacht Osiris, of Beaumaris, had made their yacht fast to the Morecambe Bay light- vessel because of the...
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H.M. Drifter Silver Seas
FEBRUARY 3RD. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 4.5 in the morning the naval control at Southend reported that H.M.
drifter Silver Seas had been abandoned and was adrift to the west side of Southend pier.