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A Tug (2)

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

JANUARY 17TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK.

At 3.53 P.M. the coastguard reported a small tug disabled and drifting in the Wash. A fresh N.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea, and the weather was described as ”arctic.” The motor life...

Gang Warily (1)

Date: Winter 1990

Volume: 51

Issue: 511

Two lifeboats in rescue of fishing boat crew from foot of sheer cliffsCoxswain Peter Race of the Teesmouth Lifeboat has been awarded the Institution's Bronze medal for bravery following the rescue of two men from the fishing vessel Gang...

George Ellis,

Date: Summer 1993

Volume: 53

Issue: 525

APRIL 1993 George Ellis, coxswain of Clacton lifeboat from 1953 to 1968. Mr Ellis joined the crew in 1934 and also served as second coxswain from 1945 to 1953..

Category: Obituaries

Foremost

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT ARBROATH by east of Arbroath, and the motor life- FEBRUARY 9TH. -ARBROATH, ANGUS. At 10.35 in the morning boat John and William Mudie was distress signals were heard south-east launched at once. It was very hazy. A...

Sarah and Mary

Date: May 1912

Volume: 21

Issue: 244

At 6.45 on the 4th December it was reported that a small schooner, the Sarah and Mary, had struck the Bar and gone j ashore in Seaford Bay. The Life-boat i Michael Henry was launched and pro- ceeded to the vessel. At the request of the...

Twin Brothers Coxswain/Assistant Mechanic Anthony Hawkins of Dover (I) and Coxswain/Mechanic Richard Hawkins of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Met Aboard Their Lifeboats When Great Ya

Date: Summer 1980

Volume: 47

Issue: 473

Twin brothers, Coxswain/Assistant Mechanic Anthony Hawkins of Dover (I.) and Coxswain/Mechanic Richard Hawkins of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, met aboard their lifeboats when Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's new 44ft Waveney class... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Mornington, Susannah and Iris

Date: February 1883

Volume: 12

Issue: 127

LOWESTOFT.—During a heavy gale from the N.E., on the 28th October, several shipwrecks, with loss of life, took place off Lowestoft. At about 11 P.M. the Samuel Plimsoll Life-boat, after much regrettable delay and difficulty, was launched and...

Margaret and James

Date: December 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 410

COBLE IN DANGER At 9.29 p.m. on 28th August, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that two red flares had been observed dose inshore near Speeton look-out. There was a slight sea and it was one hour after low water.

At...

Marie and Therese

Date: December 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 418

Atnoonon2istAugust, 1966, the French fishing vessel Marie and Therese was stated to have broken down about 30 miles north by west of Strumble Head. There was a fresh north north easterly breeze with a choppy sea. It was one hour after low...

Inset and In Miniature

Date: Summer 1991

Volume: 52

Issue: 517

Inset. And in miniature - a Tyne class 'on service' in the model display pond.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs