LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pet
At 3.45 A.M.
on the 27th January the Coastguard reported that a vessel was burning signals of distress on the Newcombe Sands. The Life-boat Kentwell was despatched in tow of a tug and found the trawler Pet, of Lowestoft,...
A Coasting Steamer
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—7th January, 1938. A coasting steamer had gone ashore on the Little Sunk Sands, but was towed clear by a tug.—Rewards, £13 25. 6d..
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Sunderland, Co. Durham, and Tynemouth, Northumberland.—llth August,1938. Signals east of the Tyne had been taken as meaning that there had been a collision, but nothing could be found.— Rewards : Sunderland, £12 18s.; Tynemouth,...
Coxswain Thomas Sinclair
COXSWAIK THOMAS SINCLAIR, of Aberdeen, who died at the age of seventy, had been one of the outstanding coxswains in the Service. He retired in 1949 after having- been coxswain for nearly twenty-five years, during which more than 180 lives...
Category: Obituaries
Mersey Class Lifeboat On-1161 Crew
Below front l-r; Alan Flatten, Michael Frary Back l-r: Alfie Smith, Kevin Parr, Nicky King. - View image in PDF
Gary Wright. Not pictured are Mark White, Jgson Wa|ker flnd Martin Emerson. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mersey
DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.—On the 2nd April, while a strong breeze was blowing from the S., the schooner Mersey, of Dublin, bound from Waterford, in ballast, for Point of Ayre, anchored near the rocks outside Conister. She was then in a dangerous...
The Danish Motor Fishing Vessel Vestarland and Other Vessels
DECEMBER 29TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE. At 2.35 P.M. the coastguard reported that a vessel was attempting to enter harbour. A strong N.N.E. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. Other vessels could be seen outside, and it was decided to send out...
Elizabeth and Hannah, of Newburgh
On the 21st Feb- ruary, the schooner Elizabeth and Hannah, of Newburgh, laden with guano, ran ashore, in thick weather, on the Gaa Bank, at the mouth of the Tay, when the sea imme- diately broke with violence over her. Being seen by some...
5: Channel Track of Little Turntable (Left) on Which She Can Be Swung Round to Convenient Position for Mounting on Carriage Tractor Moves Round Carriage
5: Channel Track Of Little Turntable (Left) On Which She Can Be Swung Round To Convenient Position For Mounting On Carriage Tractor Moves Round Carriage. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Harry Richardson
Caister, Norfolk. At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 19th of October, 1960, the life-boat mechanic noticed a vessel apparently aground on the north end of Scroby Sands. There was a moderate south-easterly wind and sea, and the tide...