LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

JANUARY 9TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.

An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea off Dunwich, but the lifeboat was recalled as a Southwold motor boat had gone to the rescue. - Rewards, £20 4s. 6d..

On the morn- ing of the 15th January, a man ran from Dunwich to Southwold to the house of the coxswain of the life-boat of the National Institution, and informed him that a boat was driving down from Dunwich with men in her, and was fast...

FEBRUARY 6TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.

A very heavy explosion had been heard five to six miles E.S.E. of Aldeburgh.

The life-boat found a large patch of oil or coal dust and followed it for two miles, but...

DUNWICH.—The Ann Ferguson Lifeboat put off at 11.55 A.M. on the 24th July, during a fresh S.W. wind and a rough sea, and proceeded to the assistance of the schooner Leeds, of and from Goole for London, laden with a cargo of fire-bricks and...

SOUTHWOLD AND DUNWICH, Onthemorningofthe27thDecember,1886, the schooner Day Star, of and for Ipswich, from Seaham, with coal, was driven on the shoal at Thorpeness, with both anchors down, and became a total wreck during a heavy gale of wind...

SOUTHWOLD AND DUNWICH, Onthemorningofthe27thDecember,1886, the schooner Day Star, of and for Ipswich, from Seaham, with coal, was driven on the shoal at Thorpeness, with both anchors down, and became a total wreck during a heavy gale of wind...

At 6 P.M. on the 22nd December a barge, the Beryl, of Faversham, showed flares for a pilot, but in the prevailing gale it was not safe for ;a pilot to proceed to her. As the weather was very bad, and had every appearance of becoming worse,...

Aldeburgh, Suffolk - At 7.10 a.m. on 22nd August, 1966, a yacht off Dunwich required assistance. There was a gale from the north east with a rough sea. It was two hours before high water. The life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson, on temporary...