LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A British Bombing Aeroplane (1)
JULY 26TH. - LOWESTOFT, AND ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK. A British bombing aeroplane had come down in flames off Southwold, but her crew were lost. - Rewards : Lowestoft, £11 15s. ; Aldeburgh, £49 2s..
Yacht Tigris
YACHT AGROUND Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 5.15 in the evening of the 14th of September, 1947, the Lymington police telephoned that a yacht was in distress near Warren Beach, and the motor life-boat Hearts of Oak, on temporary duty at the...
Nestlea and Dereske (1)
NOVEMBER 1 8 - 2 0TH. - BALTIMORE, COURTMACSHERRY, AND BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. About 10.30 A.M. a wireless message, which had been picked up at Cork, was received at Baltimore that the steamer Nestlea, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, had been attacked...
Chrysolite
During hazy weather on the 17th October, at about 1.30 A.M. the Coxswain, George Taylor, received a message by telephone from the Amble Coast Guard Station, reporting that signals were being fired from Coquet Island for the Life-boat, as a...
A Small Open Boat
Aldeburgh, Suffolk. — During the morning of the 17th September the coastguard reported that a small open boat under sail two miles south of Aldeburgh was making very heavy weather. A moderate to fresh squally south breeze was blowing, with a...
A Fishing Boat
At 1.45 P.M. on the 1st January a signal of distress was shown by two men in a fishing-boat two miles off from land in Llandudno Bay. The men, father and son, had gone out to their fishing lines and were overtaken by a sudden rising of the...
Pilot Me and Success
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At about 10 A.M.
on the 18th April, 1938, the motor fishing boats Pilot Me and Success put to sea to haul their crab pots. Theweather was showery, and the sea strong. On the flood tide the sea grew worse...
Index to Advertisers
Dr Arnison-Newgass 36 Birds Eye Foods Ltd 2 Even Sailwear Ltd 32 Glanvill Enthoven & Co Ltd 32 David Jolly (Tiller Master) 28 Maritime Books (Liskeard) 36 Mercantile Credit Inside Back Cover Mermaid Marine Engines Ltd 35 NECO Marine Ltd...
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D.S.M. for Two Coxswains.
The King has awarded the Distinguished Service Medal to Coxswain Howard Primrose Cooper Knight, of the Ramsgat* life-boat, and Coxswain Edward Drake Parker, of the Margate life-boat "for gallantry and determination when ferrying troops...
Category: Articles
A Small Boat (3)
Early on the morning of the 23rd March three boys put out from the harbour in a small boat and headed up the Bristol Channel.
When about half a mile out they tried to put about and return but were unable to do so, as a...