LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cormorant
Two saved from sinking fishing boat Cullercoat's Atlantic was called out to the fishing boat Cormorant when she began taking water about two miles to the east of the station on 31 March 1996.
It took less than five...
Erillus
OCT. 14TH. - BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE.
The coastguard reported that a steam trawler was ashore on the Smithic Sands. A fresh N.E. wind was blowing, with a heavy sea. At 2.15 P.M. the motor life-boat Stanhope Smart was...
A Martinet Aeroplane
MAY 28TH. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND.
At 4.16 in the afternoon the naval officer at Workington informed the life-boat honorary secretary that a Martinet aeroplane was down in the sea north-west of...
Freda, Dorothy, Brighter Hope and Enterprise
OCTOBER 10TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At about 10.30 A.M. the harbour entrance had become dangerous owing to a heavy fresh which was running out on the ebb tide. A strong N.N.W. breeze was blowing, and the sea was rough. Four...
Southend-on-Sea
SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, ESSEX On the 6th December, 1940, the Southend-on-Sea life-boat rescued eight men.
the crews of the barges Cambria, Decima, Glencoe, and Nelson.
COXSWAIN SIDNEY H. B. PAGE was awarded the...
Category: Medals
A Minesweeper
MARCH 25TH. - NORTH SUNDERLAND NORTHUMBERLAND. At 7.30 P.M. naval authorities at North Shields asked that the life-boat should be sent out to land an injured man from a minesweeper. The wind was light with a slight swell. At 7.42 P.M. the...
H.M. Drifter Reed
NOVEMBER 7TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA (AT BRIGHTLINGSEA), ESSEX. During the afternoon news came that a vessel had been mined south of Holland Point. A light northerly wind was blowing, and the sea was smooth. The motor life-boat Edward Z....
Juta, of Glasgow
OCTOBER 7TH. - TENBY, PEMBROKESHIRE.
At 4.55 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was making distress signals between three and five miles to the south-west-by-west. The weather was calm, but there was fog...
Trilby, of Benllech
AUGUST 5TH. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.
At ten o’clock at night the resident of a bungalow on the cliffs near Benllech reported to the honorary secretary of the life-boat station that signals were being made by torch from a launch...
Fishermen at War
No one knows more intimately the fishermen and life-boatmen of Whitby than Mr. Leo Walmsley, author of "Sally Lunn" and "Three Fevers," from which the film "Turn of the Tide", with its life-boat scenes, was made...
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