LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cromer Bowman's Gallantry. Attempt to Rescue a Drowning Man
Attempt to Rescue a Drowning Man.
ON the morning of 17th February last a number of fishing boats from Shering- ham, on the coast of Norfolk, went out after whelks. Before they returned a heavy sea had got up, and the...
Category: Services
A Motor Boat (2)
Torbay, Devon. At 4.55 on the after- noon of the 15th of September, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a woman living near Thatcher Rock, Torquay, had seen a motor boat capsize. Her crew of three were reported to be...
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Category: Advertisement
The Aberdeen Trawler Ben Barvas
FURTHER AWARD Longhope, Orkneys. On 3rd~4th January, 1964, the Longhope life-boat rescued nine men from the Aberdeen trawler Ben Barvas. For this service, a full account of which appears on page 23, the awards included that of a silver...
Araxian
Man overboard A large crowd gathered at Filey on 2 July 2001 for the naming ceremony of the station's new D class lifeboat Rotary District 1120. They got rather more than they expected, however, when a full-scale rescue took place in...
A Hundred Years Ago
A LETTER written to the firm of Messrs.
Ransomes and Sims, of Orwell Works, Ipswich, and signed by seven members of the staff " on behalf of the Clerks, Foremen and Workmen of this estab- lishment " was published...
Category: Articles
The Morecambe Bay Lightvessel
FATHER WAS ILL Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 2.30 p.m.
on 13th April, 1964, the superintendent of the Trinity House depot at Holyhead informed the honorary secretary that the father of one of the crew members of the Morecambe...
The S.S. Ben Avon
LONGHOPE, ORKNEY.—During a terrific gale from W. by S. at about 10 A.M. on the 20th January, a steamer was observed apparently in distress. The Dickinson Edleston Life-boat went to her assistance, and found that she was the s.s. Ben Avon, of...
The London Barge Alan
Selsey, Sussex.—At 9.20 on the night of the 25th of March, 1954. the coast- guard telephoned that a red flare had been reported off Selsey. At 9.55 another red flare was seen, and at 10.15 the life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched in a...