LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Episode
Dungeness, Kent.—At 8.52 on the morning of the 10th of April, 1955, the Lade coastguard reported that the motor yacht Episode, of Dundee, a houseboat of 131 tons, which had three people on board, had run aground on Camber Sands, but did not...
Lady Muriel
Selsey, Sussex. — During the after- noon of the 4th of August, 1952, a motor launch anchored about half a mile west-south-west of Selsey Bill, and the life-boat's assistant motor mechanic put out to her in his own boat. He learnt that...
Unity
Mallaig, Inverness-shire.—At 11.5 on the night of the 22nd of March,-1954, the Southend coastguard reported that the motor fishing boat Unity, of Inverness, which had a crew of eight, had wirelessed that she had gone aground off the cliffs...
Amelie Suzanne
DOCTOR REQUIRED Scarborough, Yorkshire. At 8.10 a.m. on 8th May, 1964, the skipper of the fishing coble Who Cares, who had just returned ashore, reported that the trawler Amelie Suzanne of Ostend was signalling for a doctor but that...
Cheetah II
At 3.25 a.m. on igth June, 1966, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a red flare had been sighted some five miles from the coastguard lookout. The life-boat Edian Courtauld was launched at 3.52 in a gentle westerly wind and amoderate...
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Flamborough, Yorkshire - At 4.50 p.m. on I5th August, 1967, the police informed the coxswain that a man was stranded in a cove about one mile north of the life-boat station. The coxswain and a police officer went to the scene where a youth...
Life-Boat Services During the Storms of December 1874
DURING the month of December last, the most successful and continuous services to the shipwrecked that had ever been recorded in the course of one month were performed by the Life-boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT...
Category: Articles
Henry Blogg, G.C., B.E.M.
HENRY GEORGE BLOGG, G.C., B.E.M., died in Cromer and District Hospital on the night of the 13th of June, 1954, at the age of 78.
Henry Blogg's record as a life-boat- man is unique in the history of the Institution, for...
Category: Obituaries
Hesperus
CROMER.—On the 10th April the Cromer Life-boat was launched during an easterly gale and rough sea, and proceeded to the sloop Hesperus, of Copen-hagen, which had shown signals of distress when about three miles from the Life-boat Station. On...
Helping the "Little Boats"
IN July Coxswain Roland Moore, coxswain of the Barrow life-boat, received a letter from four very young supporters. It contained a £i contribution.
"Dear Mr. Moore," they wrote. "Last month our Melanie,...
Category: Donations