LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Cromer, Norfolk. By noon, on 2yth November, 1965, the weather had deteriorated considerably and as five local fishing boats were still at sea it was decided to assemble the crew of the No. 2 life-boat. The life-boat William Henry and Mary...

On 12th November last, the British steamer Vestris, two days out on a voyage from New York to Barbados and South American ports, sank in a gale 240 miles off the coast of Virginia, with heavy loss of life. Among those on board her was the...

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SHERINGHAM LIFEBOAT Crew Member David Williams is pictured with his son Robert and daughter Caroline, who helped him in coming to the aid of a drowning man while on holiday in Minorca in September last year. Mr Alan Redhead, of Leeds, was... - View image in PDF

serving of record and worthy of imitation, has been recently made known to the public through the newspapers of the day :— At a meeting of the weekly board of the Gene- ral Hospital at Nottingham, on the 19th May,...

COXSWAIN W. J. HARVEY of Newhaven, who died on the 27th March, 1962, had been a member of the Newhaven crew for twenty-two years. He was appointed coxswain in 1948 and retired in 1961. Coxswain Harvey, who was an employee of British Railways...

The flat Tran- sit, of Liverpool, whilst bound from Llanddulas to "Widnes with a cargo of limestone, had her sails blown away in a very heavy squall on the 10th December whilst proceeding down the Horse Channel and was rendered help-...

FISHGUARD.—While a heavy gale was blowing from the S.E. with a rough sea and snow on the afternoon of the 12th January, signals of distress were shown by the smack Prosperity and ketch Mercy, both of Carnarvon, which were riding at anchor in...