LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
And They'Re Off!
And they're off! These happy toddlers look part in a race at a fun day organised at Endcliffe Park in aid of the City of Sheffield lifeboat appeal. Crowds of more than 5,000 turned up to see, among other things, a junior fancy dress... - View image in PDF
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FEBRUARY 18TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. During the afternoon the naval authorities asked for the services of the life-boat to destroy a floating mine, and the motor life-boat E.M.E.D. was launched at 3.35 P.M. A coastguard and a naval...
Wells, of Goole
SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.—On the 14th April, at daylight, the schooner Wells, of Goole, was observed at anchor off this station, with a signal of distress flying.
The schooner was in a dangerous position on a lee shore, a heavy...
Sir Garnet
GREAT YARMOUTH.—Flares and rockets having been observed in the roadstead while a strong N. to N.N.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea, on the 8th September, the Life-boat John Burch was launched at 9.35 P.M. and proceeded in the...
Richland,
Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.— At about 5 P.M. on the 5th December the steam tug Royal Britain, with the lighter Richland, of Newcastle, in tow, was seen making for harbour. A moderate N.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The tow...
The S.S. Etna
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At four o'clock on the morning of the 19th of January, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Etna, of Stock- holm, had wirelessed that she had gone aground on the Skerrinoe Rocks off the east coast...
Claudia of Belfast
On the night of the 23rd March, signals of distress were heard in the direction of the Cardiff Sands, the wind-blowing a strong gale from S.W.
at the time. The Baroness Windsor life- boat was at once launched, and it was...
Naval Auxiliary Tanker "Green Ranger" on Rocks
(See page 403). - View image in PDF
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Tvne Class Lifeboat ON-1141 Crew
t-r: Richard Matear, John Harris, John Stobbart, Wilson Matear, John Thompson, Laurence Murray, Alan Ferris. - View image in PDF
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Spray
At 12.30 a.m. on 6th October, 1966, the Dutch coaster Spray, of Joure, was reported aground on Newcombe sands, about four hundred yards from Lowestoft harbour entrance, and was signalling by light for life-boat assistance. The life-boat...