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Boy Nicholas

Date: February 1899

Volume: 17

Issue: 191

GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—In response to signals, the Life-boat Mark Lane was launched at 2.40 a.m. on the 16th September, and found the fishing-smack Boy Nicholas, of Lowestoft, aground on the East Cross Sand, where she had stranded in a thick...

Fishing Boats (6)

Date: November 1895

Volume: 16

Issue: 178

EYEMOUTH.—The Life-boat James and Rachel Grindlay was launched at about 11.30 A.M. on the 6th February, and remained in attendance until several fishing - boats which were in danger in a very rough sea had got into safety..

Fishing Boats (2)

Date: November 1894

Volume: 15

Issue: 174

NORTH SUNDERLAND. — While the fishing-boats were out on the 13th February, the sea became so heavy that the Life-boat Thomas Bewick was launched at 1 P.M., and assisted six of the boats to enter the harbour in safety..

The Seven Medallists of the Great Gales, October, 1929, to January, 1930

Date: June 1930

Volume: 28

Issue: 302

Left to right: Coxswain James Wickham, Rosslare Harbour; Mr, W. J. B. Moncas, Hon. Secretary at Rosslare; Coxswain Harry A. Griggs, jun., Hythe; Coxswain Douglas Oilier, Dungeness; Coxswain James Watkins, Angle Coxswain Richard Payne,... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Margate Motor Life-Boat on Service

Date: November 1930

Volume: 28

Issue: 304

Rescuing the Captain and Mate of the S.S. " Treport," of London, which struck submerged wreckage at the mouth of the Thames on 19th September, and sank after being beached on the Girdler Sands. The crew had been taken off earlier... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

None (1)

Date: September 1932

Volume: 28

Issue: 311

At 6.40 A.M. on 29th Feb- ruary the Coxswain was informed by the Coastguard that Newarp Light- vessel was firing rockets. The Life-boat Crew were assembled but meanwhile a further message was received that the Cromer Motor Life-boat had...

A Welsh Coxswain

Date: October 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 351

John Handcock Williams, of Tenby, who died last year at the age of 82. He was an officer of the life-boat for 26 years, retiring in 1931, and was one of the seven life-boatmen who took part, 25 years ago, in the Institution's Centenary... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Life-Boat Exhibition

Date: December 1935

Volume: 29

Issue: 324

THROUGH the kindness of the organizers of the annual Shipping, Engineering and Machinery Exhibition, held at Olympia last September, the Institution was given free space for a life-boat exhibit for the fortnight during which the exhibition...

Category: Articles

Marie Suzanne

Date: October 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 339

Walton and Frinton, Essex. — 6th March, 1939. The crew of the fishing boat Marie Suzanne, of Ostend, had abandoned their sinking vessel in a small boat, but they were picked up by the Dutch motor vessel Jutland and landed at Dover.—Rewards,...

A Canoe

Date: December 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 340

Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 8.21 P.M.

on the 17th July, 1939, a message was received from the coastguard that a canoe, with a boy on board, had capsized off Ness Point. A gentle S.W.

breeze was blowing, but the...