LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rejoice, Ina and Margaret A. Johnson
Blyth, Northumberland. — Shortly after 10 A.M. on the 12th February,1938, information was received from the Seaton Sluice and Blyth coastguards that fishing boats were out, and could not be seen. A northerly gale was blowing, with a very...
Ella
12th March. The Holy Island motor life-boat was launched at 7 P.M. in a full N.E. gale to go to the help of the lighter Ella, of A* Newcastle. A very heavy sea was breaking right across the bar and the night was very dark and bitterly cold...
Coxswain Wickham of Rosslare Harbour
JAMES WICKHAM, a former Rosslare Harbour coxswain, died on the 6th of December, 1953, at the age of 78.
Coxswain Wickham was a son of the late Coxswain Thomas Wickham of the Wexford life-boat. He himself succeeded his...
Category: Obituaries
Wyre British
Stornoway, Hebrides.—At 9.15 on the morning of the 2nd of February, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a trawler was ashore near the eastern end of Goat Island in Stornoway harbour. The life-boat The James and Margaret lioijd put out...
Queen
Shortly after 5 A.M. on 24th November a vessel was observed in the bay in dangerous prox- imity to the shore. The crew of the Life-boat Marianne L. Say were sum- moned and the boat launched. The wreck was reached at 6.30 A.M. and proved to...
A Small Boat
Longhope, Orkneys.—At three o'clock in the morning of the 1st of July, 1949, a message was received by telephone that a man, who had put out from Saltness in a small boat the previous evening to attend to his lobster creels, had not...
Anneliese K
COASTER ON ROCKS At 11.8 p.m. on 27th July, 1971, a German coaster was reported aground north of Staithes.The Runswick, Yorkshire, life-boat The Royal Thames was launched at 11.35. She found the motor vessel Anneliese K aground on Whitestone...
Adur II, of Liverpool
AUGUST 10TH. - CLOVELLY, AND APPLEDORE, DEVON. At three in the afternoon the Hartland Point coastguard telephoned to the Clovelly life-boat station that a small tug had foundered a mile northwest of the point. A moderate north-west breeze...
Comanche
Aldeburgh, Suffolk - At 8.5 a.m. on 26th May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the catamaran Comanche had requested assistance as she was drifting towards Orfordness, dragging her anchor. The life-boat Alfred and...
Carousel
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At six o'clock on the evening of the 5th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser had been observed dragging her anchor half a mile off Holland-on-Sea, and that there...