LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Florence Myall
Southcnd-on-Sea, Essex. — On the evening of the 21st August a message was received from the pier head that a barge was in a dangerous position west of the pier. She was the Florence Myall, of Rochester, with a crew of two, and her sails had...
Quickstep
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At two in the afternoon of the 4th of Novem- ber, 1951, the Foreland coastguard telephoned that a small sailing boat making for Bembridge was in distress off Seaview and at 2.15 the life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched...
The American Steamer John R. Park, of San Francisco (1)
MARCH 21ST. - PENLEE, AND THE LIZARD, CORNWALL. At 4.15 in the afternoon a message was received at Penlee from the coastguard at Penzance, that a vessel and possibly two, nine miles west of The Lizard, needed help. There was a light...
A Fishing Boat
BOARDING BOAT VEERED TO STRANDED BOAT AppJedore, Devon. On the 2nd April, 1962, the coxswain of the life-boat and other fishermen had returned earlier than usual from salmon fishing because of bad weather. The salmon fishing season had just...
Speed Boats
OCT. 18TH. - EXMOUTH, AND TORBAY, DEVON. A message was received at 7.25 P .M. from the R.A.F. that two of their speedboats had broken down twelve miles S.W. of Beer Head, and the motor lifeboat was launched with the help of...
Lavinia
CAISTER.—On the 12th November, at about 11.40 A.M., the brig Lavinia, of Guernsey, bound thence to Sunderland, in ballast, was seen to be between the Scroby and Cross Sands with colours flying union downwards. The Covent Garden Life-boat...
Mrs. L. R. Lowe, Gosfield
MRS. LOUISA RUTH LOWE, of Gosfield Hall, Essex, who died on 24th February in her 95th year had for eighteen years been the president of the Halstead and Gosfield branch, and had taken a very personal and generous interest in its work. She...
Category: Obituaries
Fertile, Craiglea and Epomeo
Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumber- land. On the morning of the 27th of October, 1959, anxiety was felt for the safety of the fishing fleet in Berwick Bay, as the weather had deteriorated considerably. It was squally and over- cast with a...
Gondolier Princess and Flying Fish
TWO BOATS TOWED IN A ROUGH SEA Ramsgate, Kent.—At 9.45 on the night of the 21st of August, 1947» the coast- guard telephoned that flares had been seen three-quarters of a mile east-south- east of Kingsgate look-out, and the motor...
The Aberdeen Motor Drifter Saxon
Cullercoats, Northumberland. —At 1.32 P.M. on the 23rd April, 1938, the Seaton Sluice coastguard reported a motor drifter on fire about two miles east of St. Mary's Island. A moderate N.N.E.
breeze was blowing, with a...