LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Homeland, Provider and Harold
Newbiggin, Northumberland. — The local motor fishing cobles Homeland, Provider and Harold did not return when expected on the 17th December, and the pulling and sailing life-boat Arthur R. Dawes was launched at 2.2 P.M. A fresh S.E. breeze...
Every Year Ronald Tail (Third from Left) Conducts Seashore Nature Trails
Every year Ronald Tail (third from left) conducts seashore nature trails, taking holidaymakers on walks along the beach at Appledore and telling them about some of the numerous creatures that live in the pools, on the rocks and in the sand... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fishing Boats
On the 9th May* the life-boat of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, which is stationed at Thorpe- ness, was the means of saving the Lives of 3 fishermen, who had been caught in a gale near Sizewell Bank, and were in great danger. Being seen...
Edward
Tynemouth, Northumberland. — At 2.25 on the afternoon of the 6th of December, 1953, the life-boat Tynesider was launched for a routine exercise. On completing the exercise she made for her station again, but when she was nearing Tyne North...
Cormorant
FRENCH FISHING BOAT IN PERIL St. Helier, Jersey.—At 8.10 in the evening of the 16th of September, 1947, a message was received from the har- bour office that two men had rowed ashore at La Rocque from the fishing boat Cormorant, of Dinan,...
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Barry Dock, Glamorganshire - At 4.46 p.m. on 6th July, 1967, while the life-boat Rachel and Mary Evans was on exercise after engine overhaul, it was reported that a boy was stranded on Porthkerry beach at the Bull Nose. The tide was flooding...
Gratefully Remembered
On 24th, September, 1939, just three weeks after war was declared, the Aldeburgh life-boat rescued the crew of 24 of a French steamer which had been torpedoed. The honorary secretary at Aldeburgh had a letter at the beginning of this year...
Category: Articles
Auffredy, of Sunderland
HARTLEPOOL.—At 10 o'clock on the night of the 1st October, the No. 1 Lifeboat, Charles Mather, gallantly rescued, in a heavy surf, 3 men, being part of the crew of the barque Auffredy, of Sunderland, which had driven ashore 3i miles...
Margaret Ann
On the 29th March, at about 3 P.M., during a heavy gale from the N.E., the schooner Margaret Ann, of Carnarvon, was seen to be riding heavily at her anchors, and at low water she struck the ground severely and unshipped her rudder. The...
Kate, of Liverpool
On the 19th October signals of distress were observed from the schooner Kate, of Liverpool, driving ashore in Arklow Bay during a heavy gale of wind. The Ark- low life-boat was again promptly launched, and brought on shore the crew of 5 men,...