LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Comfort
FISHING BOAT AGROUND Whitehills, Banffshire.—At 12.30 in the afternoon of the 13th of May, 1947, a fisherman reported that a boat was aground on Salt Stones Reef about half a mile from the harbour entrance, and the motor life-boat...
Thelma
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.—At 9.18 on the evening of the 19th of July, 1953, the coxswain was rung up with the news that the motor launch Thelma, of Fishguard, was in distress off the northern breakwater. At 9.36 the life-boat White Star was...
Fishing Boats (2)
MCH. 2OTH. - NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND. During the morning a message was received from the Seahouses coastguard that seven fishing boats of Beadnell were outside the harbour, but unable to enter owing to the very heavy swell.
A Rowing Boat
JULY 11TH. - YOUGHAL, CO. CORK.
During the afternoon of the 10th of July a party of two men and three children went in a rowing boat up the River Blackwater.
They were expected back at nine in the evening,...
An Aeroplane (61)
AUGUST 14TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT.
At 5.30 A.M. news was received from the observer post and the coastguard that a British bomber had come down in the sea between Hythe and Dymchurch. A light westerly wind was blowing, with a...
Brighter Dawn
DECEMBER 7TH. - BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At daybreak five motor fishing cobles put out lobster fishing. They had not been away very long when the southerly wind increased and the seas became heavy. Two of the cobles got...
Two Rubber Dinghies
MAY 23RD. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX.
At 5.38 in the evening the coastguard reported that two rubber dinghies, with five people on board, which had put out from Jaywick, were drifting helplessly three miles to the...
S.S. Marianne II
APRIL 5TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 4.15 in the afternoon the coastguard reported a steamer ashore on the Scroby Sands. A light westerly wind was blowing and the sea was smooth.
At 4.50 the motor...
Kopenes
SEPT. 22ND. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
At 8.45 P.M. the Royal Naval Shore Signal Station reported that red flares had been seen in an easterly direction. A fresh northerly wind was blowing, with a very rough sea. At 8.48 P.M...
Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 11.—Mr. James Hartley Burton, Honorary Secretary of the Beaumaris Life-Boat Station
ME. JAMES HARTLEY BURTON has been Honorary Secretary of a Life-boat Station, first at Penmon in Anglesey —the Station was closed in 1915—and then at Beaumaris, for over 20 years.
He has brought to the work a life-long...
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