LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Falcon
DANGEROUS POSITION Arbroath, Angus. At 8.50 a.m. on 3ist May, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that a message had been received from a Carnoustie resident that a fishing boat had fired two red flares from a point off Dowrie. At 9.6 the...
Howard Biggs,
OCTOBER 1994 Howard Biggs, honorary secretary and treasurer of Broadstairs branch since 1952 and also box secretary from 1949. He was awarded a Silver badge in 1963, a Gold badge in 1974 and a bar to the Gold badge in 1985.
Category: Obituaries
Oswaldian
Redcar, Yorkshire.—While homeward bound for Grimsby, on the morning of the 25th September, 1939, the steam trawler Oswaldian, laden with fish and carrying a crew of eleven, ran ashore on the Salt Scar Rocks off Redcar.
The...
Fishing Boats (1)
Sheringham, Norfolk. —• During the morning of the 6th of February, 1948, as, the weather was getting bad, anxiety was felt for the safety of three local fishing boats which were returning from the whelk grounds, and just after noon the motor...
Rosario Lopez
SPANISH TRAWLER AGROUND IN GALE Baltimore, Co. Cork. At 11.30 on the morning of the 31st December, 1962, the harbour master at Bantry reported that a Spanish trawler had run ashore at Adrigole, and at 1.30 the life-boat Sarah Tilson was...
Liverpool Annual Meeting
Front Row, left to right: Sir Godfrey Baring,, Bt. (Chairman of the Committee of Management), The Lord Mayor of Liverpool (Miss Margaret Bsvan), Mr. Charles Livingstone (Chairman, Liverpool Committee).
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Category: Photographs
Wyre British
Stornoway, Hebrides.—At 9.15 on the morning of the 2nd of February, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a trawler was ashore near the eastern end of Goat Island in Stornoway harbour. The life-boat The James and Margaret lioijd put out...
Gloriosa
Storm launch A CARGO VESSEL, Gloriosa, making for Kings Lynn was reported to the honorary secretary of Skegness lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1610 on Wednesday January 11, a day of exceptionally high tides and winds on the east coast...
Minnie Eaton
During a strong southerly gale and heavy sea on the 15th March, signals of distress were seen from a vessel near the Barber Sands, and the Life-boat John Burch was launched and proceeded in the direction of the signals. On reaching the...
Dragor Maersk
DANISH MOTOR VESSEL IN COLLISION Dungeness, Kent. At 6.18 on the evening of the 22nd April, 1962, the second coxswain told the honorary secretary that he had heard on his wireless a message being passed to North Foreland radio station from a...