LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On the 14th October, 1939, the Walton and Frinton life-boat rescued the crew of three of the barge Estrel, of London.

COXSWAIN THOMAS H. BLOOM was awarded the silver medal.

SECOND COXSWAIN WALTER J....

13 February: This catamaran was holed on rocks, and her owner was struggling with the ingress of water with his own pump. Sunderland lifeboat crew were called upon to help, and launched both lifeboats – D class...

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BOAT WAS OVERDUE Walmer, Kent. During the afternoon of igth November, 1963, the coastguard and local boatmen received reports that a local drift net fishing boat was overdue with a strong offshore gale blowing up.

The boat...

North Sunderland, Northumberland.

At 12.2 p.m. on 2ist September, 1965, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized in Newton Bay and that two people were believed to be on board. At 12.5 the IRB...

MARCH 1ST. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.

At 3.15 P.M. a ship’s boat was reported by the life-boat motor-mechanic to be adrift a mile from the shore, to the west of Sheringham. The coastguard at Skeldon Hill had also seen the boat...

FLAMBOROUGH.—The Life-boat Grace and Lolly of Broad Oak went out at about 10.45 P.M., on the 23rd November, and rescued the crew, consisting of eight men, from the brig Tartar, of Salcombe, which was wrecked on the rocks off Flamborough...

TENBY, SOUTH WALES. — The ketch Honor, of and from Cardiff, for St. David's with coal, showed signals of distress while riding at anchor in the roadstead, daring a very heavy gale from the S.W., on the 8th December. The Anne Collin...