LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sea Lark
This Life-boat was also launched, at noon of the 27th February, to render assistance to a vessel observed at anchor in dangerous position near the Cockle Sand, with a signal of distress flying. The Godsend had to cross the Barber Sand, over...
W. L. J.
CAISTEE.—The three-masted schooner W. L. J., of Swansea, bound from Goole for Plymouth with coal, and carrying a crew of ten men, was seen to near the Barber Sand and let go her anchor on the 28th December. As it was feared she would go...
The S.S. Southport
Caister, Norfolk. —At 11.14 in the afternoon, on the 17th of March, 1951, a resident reported that a ship was on the Barber Sands. At 1.30 the life- boat Jose Neville was launched in a smooth sea with a moderate south- westerly...
Stockport Auxiliaries' 9-Ft. Life-Boat
MEMBERS of the Stockport Crew of Life-boat Auxiliaries, led by Mr. Wallace L.
Barber, aged 60, of 19 Roxton Road, Heaton Chapel, Stockport, Lancashire, who founded the crew in 1937, have completed a model of a 37-foot...
Category: Articles
A R.A.F. Launch
MAY 11TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 4.12 A.M.
the Great Yarmouth coastguard telephoned that the naval base wanted the life-boat to help with a R.A.F. launch which had goneaground, and the motor life-boat...
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 8.30 on the evening of the 3rd of April, 1959, the honorary secretary received a message that three pedigree cows had fallen over a cliff at Manorbier. Two of the cows were in a position which was inaccessible from...
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The S.S. Olivia
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 3.30 on the evening of the 27th of November, 1954, during a fresh south-south-west gale, the coastguard telephoned that a message had been received from the North Foreland radio station that the S.S. Olivia, of...
Bronze for Lochinver coxswain
Remember our rescue story in Spring 2015, reporting how Lochinver and Thurso crews aided a fish carrier during a 13-hour rescue in a gale? Now the Lochinver Coxswain, David MacAskill (above right), is to be awarded an RNLI Bronze Medal for...
Category: Articles
Commander Edward Drury
COMMANDER EDWARD DUMERGUE DRURY, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., late chief inspector of life-boats, died on the 24th of January at the age of 72.
He was the elder son of Dr. Drury, Bishop of Ripon, was educated at Merchant...
Category: Obituaries