LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 8.30 in the evening of the 22nd of September, 1951, a man telephoned from Helms- dale that he had taken three men out in a coble to shoot sea birds and landed them on a cliff west of Berrie- dale Head. A fresh...
Castle Craig
BROOKE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—The steamer Castle Craig, of Liverpool, stranded on Brooke Ledge during thick weather and a heavy sea on the 14th December. At about 4 A.M., her signals of distress being observed, the crew of the George and Anne...
Citrine
Early on the morning of the 2nd of January, 1956, the motor vessel Citrine, of Glasgow, sank off the Cornish coast. The Lizard life-boat rescued three of her crew from the sea, and the Coverack life-boat rescued four others from the sea, one...
Elisabeth
Wells, Norfolk.—During the morning of the 19th November, 1937, the coastguard reported a vessel ashore about two and a half miles east of the entrance to Wells harbour. She was the auxiliary ketch Elisabeth, of Hamburg, bound from Hamburg to...
A Boat
On the 7th of December, 1959. the Cromarty and Torbay life-boats carried out services for which medals for gallantry were awarded. Full accounts of these services begin on page 389.
On the same day the Longhope life- boat...
Amstelstroom
Appledore, Devon.—During a thick fog in the early hours of the morning of the 18th of July, 1948, the motor ship Amstelstroom, of Amsterdam went aground on the rocky coast of Lundy Island. Her crew of eleven got...
Obituary
THE committee of management of the Institution deeply regret the loss of two of their colleagues last spring..
Category: Obituaries
Tom Pepper
Dover, Kent. At 9.10 on the night of the 26th of May, 1958, the Sandgate coastguard told the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel was drifting without lights a mile and a half south of the coastguard station. At 9.30 the life- boat...
Maurice Georges
St. Helier, Jersey.—On the 13th of September, 1949, the life-boat Hearts of Oak, from the reserve fleet, doing tem- porary duty at the station, put out in search of an aeroplane, but found nothing and returned to her...
A Jet Aircraft
Selsey, Sussex.—At 3.20 on the after- noon of the 20th of May, 1955, the Selsey coastguard telephoned that the R.A.F. No. 19 Group had reported that a jet aircraft of the R.A.F., with a crew of two, had crashed fifteen miles south of Selsey...