LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Portpatrick, Wigtownshire - At 8.11 p.m. on 9th May, 1967, it was learned that the fishing vessel Star of Freedom had engine trouble and was drifting seven miles south by east of Portpatrick. The life-boat Henry Blogg, on temporary duty at...

Henry 'Shrimp' Davies Former Cromer coxswain (see right) deaths Henry 'Shrimp' Davies Henry Davies was given the nickname 'Shrimp' after his famous uncle, coxswain Henry Blogg, saw him as a tiny...

Wells, and Cromer, Norfolk. At 10.48 on the morning of the 31st of December, 1959, the coastguard told the motor mechanic of the Wells life- boat that an aircraft had crashed into the sea off South Race Bank buoy. At eleven...

Left to right: G. Cox, Robert Cox, I. R Davies, J. J. Davies, junior, W. H. Davies, J. J. Davies, senior (second coxswain), Henry Blogg (coxswain), J. W. Davies, H. T. Davies, F. Davies, R. C. Davies and H. W. Davies (motor... - View image in PDF

Cromer, Norfolk.—At 11.25 on the morning of the 2nd of October, 1954, the Superintendent of Trinity House at Yarmouth asked if the life-boat would fetch a very sick man from the Cromer lightvessel. At 11.40 the No. 1 life- boat Henry...

Cromer, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 11.22 on the morning of the 24th of July, 1952, the Cromer coastguard telephoned the Cromer life-boat station that the R.A.F. at Neatishead had reported a Meteor aircraft as having...

Cromer, Norfolk.—At 3.47 on the after- noon of the 2nd of September, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that some people were drifting out to sea on a rubber tyre off Walcott. At 3.55 the No. 1 life-boat Henry Blogg was launched. There was...

Cromer, Norfolk. At 6.20 on the evening of the 27th of August, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a yacht had broken down and was drifting east of Cromer. At 6.37 the motor vessel Antiquity of London approached the...