LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hassett
Filey, Yorkshire.—About 2.30 on the afternoon of the 21st of August, 1952, the coastguard asked for the life-boat to meet the Grimsby trawler Hassett off Flamborough Head in order to bring a sick man ashore. At 2.50 the life- boat The Cuttle...
Margaret
Filey, Yorkshire.—At 8.50 on the morning of the 15th of July, 1953, the coastguard rang up to pass on a radio message from a steamer. This said that the fishing coble Margaret and James, of Scarborough, was six miles north-north-east of...
Fishing Cobles
Filey, Yorkshire. At 3.32 p.m. on 23rd February, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that five Filey cobles were still at sea, and as the weather was getting worse asked if the life-boat The Isa & Penryn Mihted would...
George and Mary of Hull
On the night of the 25th October, 1859, the sloop George and Mary, of Hull, was driven ashore near Filey, in a heavy gale from the eastward.
On her showing a light as a signal of dis- tress, the Filey life-boat was manned...
Mary
Filey, Yorkshire.—On the late after- noon of the 24th of November, 1950, the fishing boat Mary, of Filey, was reported overdue. Although the sea was slight and the wind light from the north-east, the state of the tide with approaching...
Garthclyde
On the 1st February the motor vessel Garthclyde, of London, bound in ballast from London to Blyth, got into difficulties off Filey and dropped both her anchors.
A N.E. gale was blowing with a very rough sea. The...
Provider
TO THE HAVEN Flamborough, Yorkshire. At 10.30 a.m. on 4th November, 1963, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that a fishing coble was still at sea in rapidly deteriorating weather conditions.
At n o'clock the...
The Motor Fishing Coble Hilda (1)
Scarborough, and Filey, Yorkshire.—At 6.10 in the evening of the 17th of January, 1949, the Scarborough coast- guard reported to the life-boat station that anxiety was felt for the safety of the local motor fishing coble Hilda which had left...
May Lily (1)
Filey, and Flamborough, Yorkshire.— At 7.16 on the morning of the 17th ofApril, 1951, a fisherman telephoned the Filey life-boat authorities that he had picked up a message on his wireless set: the fishing boat May Lily, of Scar-...
A Fishing Boat
Four launches OVER THE WEEKEND of September 16 and 17 Filey lifeboat, the 37ft Oakley Robert and Dorothy Hardcastle, launched on service three times and the station D class ILB once within the space of 26 hours.
The first...