LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mary
FISHING COBLE TAKEN IN TOW St. Abbs, Berwickshire. At nine o'clock on the morning of the 24th August, 1962, the principal keeper of the St.
Abbs Head lighthouse telephoned to say the local fishing coble Mary, which had...
Provider (1)
COBLE ESCORTED TO SAFETY OF BAY Flamborough, Yorkshire. On the 12th September, 1962, the local fishing coble Provider was out fishing from the north landing when a northerly gale sprang up. The life-boat coxswain went to the landing, and as...
The Seine-Net Fishing Boat Faithful
SEINE-NET FISHING BOAT DRIVEN ASHORE North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At 7.20 on the evening of the 18th June, 1963, the coxswain reported that the local seine-net fishing boat Faithful, which had a crew of six, had driven...
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TAKEN TO HOSPITAL At 2.30 p.m. on 2nd December, 1963, the local doctor told the honorary secretary that a sick patient required to be taken to the mainland for hospital treatment.
The honorary secretary agreed to use the...
Boston Gannet
Barra Island, Hebrides. At 10.40 on the night of the 20th of October, 1958, a message was received from the local trawlers' agent that there was a sick man on board the steam trawler Boston Gannet of Fleetwood. The skipper had asked that...
Victory
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 7.30 on the evening of the 16th of April, 1959, the signal station reported that red and white flares had been seen about one mile south of the pier heads. The life-boat Euphrosyne Kendal left her moorings at...
Cover Picture
The Shoreham, Sussex, life-boat Dorothy and Philip Constant—she is a 42-foot Watson cabin class type—leaving her slipway during a recent exercise in which she was specially photographed by Mr. J.
Jochimsen of Photo Process... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Border Queen
BIyth, Northumberland - At 11.45 a.m. on 24th March, 1968, thecoastguard told the honorary secretary that a coble had fired distress flares in Cambois bay about one mile north of the harbour mouth.
The life-boat Winston...
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Galway Bay - At i p.m. on 30th May, 1967, the local doctor requested the service of the life-boat to take an elderly woman on Inishmaan Island to hospital.
The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson, with a crew of five and a...
Pride of Hythe and Sucu Sucu
FISHING BOAT SINKING Ramsgate, Kent. At 4.45 p.m. on ist August, 1965, the east pier watchman reported that a small fishing boat near Quern Buoy was signalling for help.
At 4.59 the life-boat Michael and Lilly Davis put out...