LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Vera
Sunderland, Co. Durham.—At 1.56 on the afternoon of the 22nd of Decem- ber, 1957, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the local fishing coble Vera, with a crew of three, appeared to be in difficulties one mile east-north-east...
A Fishing Boat
Ballycotton, Co. Cork. At 9.15 on the evening of the 10th of June, 1958, the coxswain told the honorary secre- tary that the Ballycotton lighthouse keepers had fired two flares and were flying a flag. At 9.20 the life-boat Mary Stanford put...
Victory
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 12.10 in the morning of the 12th of November, 1948, information was received that the local motor fishing boat Victory, with two aboard, was five hours overdue, and the motor life-boat Mary Scott, on temporary...
Santa Cruz
Arklow, Co. Wicklow. — At nine o'clock on the night of the 9th of De- cember, 1948, it was reported that a fishing boat was burning flares to the north-east, and the motor life-boat Inbhear Mor was launched at 9.10 in a southerly...
Tansy
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. — At 8.30 in the morning of the 22nd of June, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was blowing her siren and be- lieved to be on the Geddle Weirs Rocks.
A later message said that she had...
A Fishing Boat (3)
FISHING BOAT TOWED TO PORTRUSH Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 4.11 on the afternoon of the 23rd of July, 1958, the coastguard reported that a small boat was in difficulties near Skirks Rock. The life-boat Lady Scott (Civil Service No. 4) was...
None (3)
Galway Bay. At 10.45 on the night of the 19th of November, 1958, the cox- swain received a request from the local doctor for the life-boat to take an expectant mother to the mainland. At eleven o'clock the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson...
Fishing Cobles (1)
Filey, Yorkshire. At 10.40 on the morning of the 18th of May, 1959, the honorary secretary received a message from the second coxswain that five local fishing cobles were out in bad weather.
The honorary secretary went to...
The Motor Fishing Vessels Winifred, Express and Random Harvest
Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 11.18 on the morning of the 3rd of February, 1960, the life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield II was launched to stand by three local motor fishing vessels, which were entering harbour in very bad weather. There was...
Brittania
Flamborough, Yorkshire. — On the morning of the 17th of December, 1949, the local fishing coble Brittania, manned by a crew of three, was at sea. It was very rough and there was a north- westerly gale; conditions were so bad in fact,...