LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

EEDCAB.—The Life-boat Brothers was launched for exercise at 2.15 P.M. on the 23rd June, 1892, in a moderate gale from the N. by E. and a rough sea, and, while under sail, the coble Wild Hose, of Eedcar, was seen, about two miles to leeward,...

— On the 15th November the Life-boat Dorinda and Barbara on this station, put off, during stormy weather, to the assistance of the schooner Excel, of Goole, which had stranded on the Knock Sand. On reaching the vessel, which was in a sinking...

At 8.25 p.m. on 2nd September, 1969, the coastguard reported that a red flare had been sighted about four miles east of the coastguard lookout.

The life-boat Frederick Edward Crick slipped her moorings at 8.35 in a moderate...

MOTHER WAS ILL At 9.30 p.m. on 2nd June, 1964, the police told the honorary secretary that H.M.S. Malcolm was due to arrive off Scarborough at 10 p.m. and had to land a rating who needed to see his seriously ill mother. The high tide and...

Aberdeen. At 3.22 p.m. on 2nd February, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Ross Fortune of Grimsby was nearly aground in Aberdeen Bay and had asked for assistance. The life-boat Ramsay Dyce left at 3.44 in...

SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.—On the 8th April, during a N. wind, squally weather and a very rough sea, signals of distress were shown by the sloop Watson, of Goole,was at about 5.15 P.M. The Life-boat Ann, John and Mary was at once got ready for...

THE Duchess of Northumberland, C.B.E., a vice-patron of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild and president of the Alnwick Guild, named a new motor life-boat at North Sunderland on 5th September. The boat is of the 35 feet 6 inches light Liverpool...

On the night of the 23rd October, the government lighter Devon, was totally wrecked during a gale and heavy sea on the Brisson's Rocks.

At,daybreak one of the crew was seen from the land, and the Cousins William and...