LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tern and the Trinity Vessel Reculver
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 8.45 A.M. on the 18th November, 1937, the coastguard reported that the motor vessel Tern, of London, appeared to be showing signals about one and a half miles E.N.E. from Britannia...
Saving Life at Sea
THE following correspondence has taken place between the Home Office and the Na-tional Life-boat Institution on the subject of the number of Lives Saved by its Life- boats during the year 1880, and also the number saved through its...
Category: Articles
The Ferry Nordic Ferry (1)
Ferry fire puts all emergency services on alert at Harwich Harwich, Walton andFrinton and Aldeburgh East and South East Divisions Four lifeboats, three helicopters, three tugs and a harbour launch were despatched to the passenger and cargo...
The Oyster Smack Royal Native
TOW FOR OYSTER SMACK AFTER BREAKDOWN Ramsgate, Kent. At 1.42 on the afternoon of the 14th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was firing flares off North Foreland. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis...
A Silver Medal Service at Longhope
ON the night on 9th January signals of a vessel in distress were seen off Tor Ness at the south-west end of the island of Hoy in the Orkneys. She was found later to be the trawler Dorbie of Hull.
It was then ten minutes...
Category: Services
Terrible Life-Boat Disaster at Kingstown
and mercifully disasters resulting in the loss of a whole Life-boat crew are very few and far between, but an accident of this character took place, alas! at Kingstown on Christmas Eve, and was the worst which had befallen the Service for...
Category: Articles
J. W. Sebell
CLACTON.—On the morning of the 10th March news was received that a man had landed about two miles east of Clacton at eight o'clock in an open boat which was nearly full of water. He had been taken to a farmhouse by some labouring people,...
Survivors from the Ferry Laerling Are Landed from Lerwick's Arun Class Lifeboat Soldian.
Survivors from the ferry Laerling are landed from Lerwick's Arun class lifeboat Soldian. Photo Ian Leask. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Four-Masted Iron Ship Mersey
WALMEB AND KINGSDOWNE, KENT.— On the 27th and 28th December, 1901, a heavy south-westerly gale prevailed in the Channel. The four-masted iron ship Mersey, of Grimstad, was driven on the Goodwin Sands, and in a very short time was engulfed....
The Seine-Net Fishing Vessel Mizpah
Cullercoats, Northumberland. At o.30 on the evening of the 27th April, 1961, the life-boat Isaac and Mary Bolton was launched on exercise in a light north- easterly breeze with a slight sea and fog.
Half-a-mile from the...