LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

MCH. 15TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.

During the morning five Whitby fishing vessels put to sea at 5 A.M. A strong N.N.E.

wind was blowing, with a heavy broken sea.

The sea increased and at 10...

DEC. 4TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. - At 2.45 A.M., a message was received from the Gorleston coastguard that the S.S. Accrington, of Grimsby, was in the roadstead with twentytwo survivors of the crew of the S.S....

JULY 10TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON. NORFOLK. At about 4.15 P.M. the naval authorities asked the life-boat to go out to a trawler which was coming into the roadstead with survivors, some injured, from a vessel which had been sunk by...

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OCTOBER 24TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.

At 9.15 in the morning, the coastguard reported that the local motor fishing coble Jean and Barbara was at sea and anxiety was felt for her. A south-south-east gale was blowing, increasing...

DECEMBER 21ST. - ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE.

At 1.45 in the afternoon the motor fishing boat Laurel put out from St. Abbs to search for another local boat, the motor fishing boat Faithful, which, with a crew of three on board,...

By Captain ANTHONY S. THOMSON, C.B., Elder Brother of Trinity House, Commander B.N.B.

Reprinted from the " Journal of the Royal United Service Institution," by permission.

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HORNSEA, YORKSHIRE.—A new life-boat, on Mr. PEAKE'S design, has been placed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION at Horn- sea, in lieu of an old boat at that place, which was of an unwieldy and inferior construction, and in which the...