LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Yewglen
North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At 5.27 on the morning of the 29th of February, 1960, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that a vessel was ashore on Beadnell Point.
At 5.45 the...
Sea Lion
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At 12.13 early on the morning of the 10th July, 1961, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report from the Strumble Head lighthouse that a red flare had been seen two miles to the north-west. There...
Panaghiotis
MARCH 15TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT.
At 8.40 P.M. information was received from the coastguard that a steamer had stranded S.E. of the coastguard station at Jury’s Gap.
A fresh westerly wind was blowing, with...
The S.S. Grove Hill
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 7.14 on the evening of the 23rd of November, 1952, the coastguard said he had learnt from a wireless signal that distress rockets had been seen four miles east- by-north of Cromer. The life-boat Henry Blogg was launched...
Mr. Arthur Simmons, of New Brighton
Mr. Arthur Simmons, of New Brigh- ton, Cheshire, who died on 6th January last, was the First Engineer of the first of the Institution's Steam Life-boats, the Duke of Northumberland, and he served as an engineer for twenty-seven years.<...
Category: Obituaries
Bittern
During a heavy gale from S.W.
on the 22nd April the yacht Bittern, of Berwick, was observed being rapidly driven seawards. The gale was increas- ing in violence, and it was considered necessary to launch the Life-boat to...
Victoria and Atomic Star
HELPLESS IN A HEAVY SEA Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—At 6.40 in the evening of the 22nd of September, 1947, the fishing boat Victoria was seen approaching harbour with the seine-net motor fishing boat Atomic Star in...
William Maskill
SWANAGE.—At about 5 A.M. on the 7th March, the Life-boat Charlotte Mary was launched during a gale from the S.S.E.
and a heavy sea, in response to signals of distress from the schooner William Maskill, of Goole, bound from...
Four Polish Trawlers
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 6.57 on the evening of the 27th of November, 1954, the Gorleston coastguard telephoned that he had seen red and green rockets between three and four miles south- east of the coastguard station. At...
Nancy
Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 10.10 on the night of the 1st of July, 1959, a report was received that flares had been seen off Black Rocks, Penmon. At 10.25 the life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts was launched in a rough sea. There was a...