LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Boy Eric
APRIL 19TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 3.30 P.M. the naval base reported a fishing boat, off the North Foreland, in need of a tow into harbour. She was the Boy Eric, of Lowestoft, on voyage, with a crew of two, to Ramsgate for repairs. A light S.W...
A Boat (3)
JUNE 18TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. During the morning a small boat with five boys on board was seen two miles N.N.E. from the life-boat station. A moderate S.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. The boat was kept under observation and at 1...
The S.S. Penrhyn and the Examination Vessel Galatea
NOVEMBER 15TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 12.17 P.M. the Mersey Docks Board reported to the life-boat authorities that a steamer had sunk near the Gamma Buoy.. A S.E. breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth. The No. 1 motor life-boat...
Ruby
JUNE 3RD. - BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 11.20 A.M. i t was reported by telephone that a small fishing boat was in distress to the south of Berwick pier, and the motor life-boat Elizabeth Newton, on temporary duty at the station,...
The Sailing Trawler W. E. H.
On the morning of the 7th December the Lowestoft sailing trawler W.E.H. ran ashore on a sandbank formed at the North Pier extension, while returning from the fishing grounds. A whole E.N.E. gale was blowing and heavy seas broke over the...
Hakon Jarl
GREAT YARMOUTH.—On the 18th March the barque Hakon Jarl, of Arendal, Norway, bound for G-oole, with a cargo of logwood, which had been riding in the roadstead, was seen drifting towards the Scroby Sands with a signal of distress flying. The...
Agricola
FISHGUARD, SOUTH WALES.—While a strong W.N.W. gale was blowing, with sleet, squally weather and a heavy sea, on the 3rd March the Coastguard watchman reported a schooner about five or six miles out, bearing N.N.W. from the look-out house, in...
The Naming of the 52Ft Relief Lifeboat Dwctoso/Ken/
THE PERFECT SUNNY AFTERNOON of Tu6Sday April 27 seemed to take on extra brightness when Their Royal Highnesses, The Duke and Duchess of Kent arrived at the Jubilee Gardens, South Bank, to name the relief 52ft Arun lifeboat Duchess of Kent....
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Maurita, of Lancaster
Blackpool, Lancashire.—At 10.35 P.M.
on the llth December, 1937, the proprietor of an hotel on the south shore reported to the coxswain that a vessel off the shore, about a mile south of the south pier, was sending up...
Andaman and Fortune (1)
Dover, and Walmer, Kent.—At 2.55 early on the morning of the 24th of May, 1953, the Sandgate coastguard rang up to say that the motor vessel Andaman.
of Gothenburg, had collided with the Panamanian steamer Fortune three...