LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

COBLES ESCORTED AS GALE SPRINGS UP Scarborough, Yorkshire. On the 18th January, 1963, the weather deteriorated rapidly, and as several local fishing boats were at sea the honorary secretary gave permission for the life-boat to be launched....

BRANCASTER, NORFOLK.—On the morning of the 18th April a vessel was observed stranded on Burnham Flats, but she suddenly disappeared. At 7 o'clock the Life-boat Lily Bird was launched in a heavy sea and a strong N.

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Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At seven o'clock on the evening of the 20th of November, 1952, the parents of two men who had left on a fishing trip in a small sailing boat that morning reported that their sons had not re- turned. At...

Coxswain Robert Cross, G.M., who has been in command nf the lifeboat station at The Humber for 3i years, has retired at the age of 67.

These last tour years have been the busiest, as well as the most dangerous, in his long...

Whitby, Yorkshire. — In the early morning of the 15th of November, 1947, several fishing vessels had put to sea in moderate weather, but wind and sea increased, the boats returned, and by 7.30 all had got safely into har- bour except the...

Tenby, Pembrokeshire. — 1st June, 1939. Two girls had been cut off by the tide at Llanelly, but they reached safety without the life-boat's help.— Rewards, £2 5s..

Two little girls of Withernsea, aged thirteen and eleven, have sent a blanket, which they had made themselves, to Coxswain Robert Cross, of the Humber station, to be used in the life-boat..

Amble, Northumberland.—The motor life-boat Frederick and Emma, which was placed at Amble when that lifeboat station was reopened at the beginning of 1939, received her first service call at 8.30 A.M. on the 15th March.

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