The late Jacko Harris with just a few of the many thousands of school children he showed round Appledore lifeboat house in the last 14 years of his life.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A marriage has been arranged, and will take place on 28th July, between George F. Shee, second son of the late Richard Jenery Shee, of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law, and Mrs. Shee, and Helen Dorothea, younger daughter of the Rev. T....
Category: Articles
To the Editor, THE LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL.
SIR,—As I was an eye-witness of them, I think it may be of interest to you to have a narrative from myself of the events which led up to what I have no hesitation in calling one of the...
Category: Correspondence
NOVEMBER 15-25TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At 3.25 A.M. a message was received from the Haisboro’ coastguard that a trawler was ashore near the Haisboro’ Gap. A light southerly breeze was blowing and there was a heavy ground...
The following figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general exterior form of the boat is...
Category: Articles
ONE of the happiest and most success- ful of annual Life-boat functions is the summer Road "Exercise and Launch of the Cullercoats Life-boat at Whitley Bay. On that day the Fishwives of Cullercoats, headed by Mrs. Mary Scott, th;...
Category: Articles
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 6.35 P.M. on the llth March the coastguard reported that rockets had been fired by the Cockle light-vessel. A strong N.E. breeze was blowing, with a very heavy sea. At 7.30 P.M....
NOV. 26TH. - KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD.
At 3.30 P.M. a telephone message was received that there was a sick man on the Conningbeg Lightship who had to be moved immediately to hospital, and that the Irish Lights tender was unable...
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 7.20 on the evening of the 19th of August, 1952, the coastguard reported that a ship was sinking on the Red Sands, and that the crew had taken to their boats.
Twenty minutes later the life-boat...
The wreck of the German barque Hera in Gerrans Bay on the 1st February was unfor- tunately attended by the loss of nineteen lives. The vessel, which was a four- masted barque, of nearly 2,000 tons, was bound from Pisagua with a cargo of...