LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mr. John Foster of Whitby
THERE are few in the history of the Institution who have a longer record of service than Mr. John W. Foster, of Whitby, who retired at the end of last September. He had then been secretary of the Whitby life-boat station for 44 years. He was...
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Vondel
FALMOUTH.—The full-rigged ship Vondel> of Amsterdam, bound from Liverpool for Port Adelaide with a cargo of superphosphates, stranded on the rocks near St. Mawes Castle Point, in an extremely dangerous position, having dragged her anchor...
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Britannia
Flamborough, Yorkshire. — On the morning of the 22nd April, 1939, a heavy N.N.W. gale sprang up while the fishing fleet was at sea. Several boats landed with difficulty and it was decided to send out the motor life-boat Elizabeth and Albina...
Fishing Cobles
Fifteen motor cobles went out fishing at 7 A.M. on the 27th October in fine weather. By 9.30 A.M. a storm was coming up and the sea was growing rough. At 10.5 A.M. conditions were so bad that the pulling and sailing life-boat Hollon the...
Little Old Lady
Dungeness, Kent.—At 10.10 in the morning of the 2nd of February, 1950, the Jury Gap coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat was burning a flare and flying a large ensign two miles south of the Gap. Most of the life- boatmen were...
The S.S. Poole Channel
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 1.36 in the afternoon of the 5th of February, 1952, the Gorleston coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Poole Channel, of London, had wirelessed that she was making for Great Yarmouth with an injured...
Redcap
Caister, Norfolk. At 2.10 p.m. on i6th August, 1964, the Gorleston coastguard reported that a cabin cruiser needed help off Horsey, eight miles north of Caister.
At 2.25 the life-boat The Royal Thames was launched with the...
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JUNE 6TH. - TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 5.32 P.M. the South Shields coastguard reported that three boys were marooned on rocks. The tide was half flood, and the weather fine, with a slight sea.
A motor...
Dinghies
MARCH 13TH. - COURTMACSHERRY, CO. CORK. At 4.45 in the morning the military barracks at Cork reported distress signals seen off Galley Head. It was a fine night, with a slight haze, calm sea, and a light southerly wind. With the second...