LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Holy Island
From a photograph by Capt. E. W. Swan, C.B.E., VD.. D.L.. R.N.V.R.. a member of the Committee 0} Management and Chairman of the Tyr.emouth Branch.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
June Rose.
PROPELLER FOULED Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—-At 9.40 in the evening of the llth of November, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that a seine-net fishing boat had fouled her propeller and was signalling for help half a mile off Cruden Bay. The...
June Rose
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. — On the 21st of August, 1948, the motor fishing boat June Rose, of Castlebay, put to sea at 5.30 in the morning.
She had not returned by half past two in the afternoon and was...
Audrey
Poole and Bournemouth, Dorsetshire.— At eight o'clock in the evening of the 4th of September, 1949, the South bourne coastguard reported that a small vessel was on fire near Poole harbour entrance.
At 8.5 the life-boat...
Cromer Naming Ceremony
Coxswain Henry Blogg with the Bishop of Norwich and the Right Hon. Sir Samuel Hoare, Bt., Secretary of State for Home Affairs. (See page 395.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Rubber Air-float
Selsey, Sussex.—8th September. A child had drifted out to sea on a rubber air-float, but fishermen found the child's body and the float.—Rewards, £5 17s. 6d..
Cormorant
Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.— Late in the evening of the 26th September it was reported that the motor yachtCormorant, of Berwick-on-Tweed, had left Holy Island for Berwick at 6 P.M., but had not arrived. There were seven men on board....
Florence Myal
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.15 A.M.
on the 4th May, 1938, the coastguard reported a light about six miles S.W.
by S. Watch was kept, and after some time it was decided to send out the motor life-boat...
Dozmare
Moelfre, Anglesey.—During the afternoon of the 6th June, 1938, the Holyhead coastguard telephoned that a small sailing yacht had been reported making heavy weather about four miles out to sea. Owing to bad visibility, it was not possible to...
Hood
Gourdon, Kincardineshire At 4.20 A.M. on the 12th August, 1938, the coastguard reported that the steam trawler Hood, of Aberdeen, was ashore about half a mile east of Johnshaven.
She had a crew of eleven on board and was...