LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (5)
FEBRUARY 9TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
At 3.50 P . M . the coastguard reported a British aeroplane in difficulties, and a few minutes later the news came that the aeroplane was down in the sea. Her position was given at...
Memorial Service at Arbroath
A MEMORIAL service, conducted by the Rev. Norman Ncsbit Faid, assisted by Provost J. K. Moir, was held in St. John's Methodist Church, Arbroath, on the 20th of February, 1955, to com- memorate the six members of the crew of the Arbroath...
Category: Articles
Coxswain C. R. Ellis
COXSWAIN C. R. ELLIS of Clacton, who died on the 2nd January, 1962, had been coxswain of the life-boat from 1924 until 1950, when he retired.
He had previously been second coxswain for four years. Coxswain Ellis was awarded...
Category: Obituaries
Bella Mattison
(Honorary Secretary, Cullercoats) EVERYWHERE in north-east England, and far beyond, "Bella, the Life-boat Lady "is known. Mrs. Bella Mattison is the nationally known character who epitomises the wives of fishermen everywhere, and...
Category: Articles
A Large Steamer
APRIL 6TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT. A message was received at 7.50 in the morning from the Foreland coastguard that a large steamer was sinking six miles to the south-south-east and that a destroyer was in the neighbourhood. There was a...
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Sea Fox (2)
Search success AT 1820 ON FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1987, Tyne Tees Coastguards were alerted by the mother of one of two men aboard the Hartlepool-based fishing boat Sea Fox that the vessel was six hours overdue at the east coast...
None (4)
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 4.20 on the afternoon of the 7th of June, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that some boys had been cut off by the tide at Crow- link, and at 4.40 the life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott was launched.
She...
Sea King
During a moderate S.E. gale and very heavy sea, on the 3rd January, the steam- trawler Sea King, of Hull, was observed in the offing making signals for a pilot.
The sea was too rough for an ordinary shoreboat to put off,...
Naming Ceremony at Flamborough
THE motor life-boat stationed at Flam- borough last year was named on 28th August.
The Flamborough station was estab- lished in 1871 and has always had two life-boats, is of the light Liverpool type, 35 feet 6 inches by 10...
Category: Inaugurations