LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Boats (2)
Arbroath, Angus—On the morning of the 30th January the bar off the harbour entrance was very unsafe, owing to a very heavy easterly swell.
Eight of the local fishing boats had not returned, and the motor life-boat John and...
Prosperity, Progress, Endeavour, Flying Spray and Success
Whitby, Yorkshire.—Early on the morning of the 15th April the local motor fishing boats Prosperity, Progress, Endeavour, Flying Spray and Success put out to fish. A nasty sea was running. Later on it grew worse and broke heavily on the bar....
Providence
Margate, Kent.—During the evening of the 23rd of July, 1948, the sister of the skipper of the local fishing vessel Providence reported that the Providence had gone out fishing early that morning and was long overdue. The coast- guard was...
Ocean Reaper
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 10.5 on the night of the 1st of December, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing vessel appeared to be in difficulties, and drifting, half a mile south-east of the breakwater, and at 10.40 reported that she was...
Kingfisher IV
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 2.16 in the afternoon of the 19th of De- cember, 1948, a motor vessel informed Niton Radio Station of a fishing boat in. need of help nearly three miles out from Shoreham in a south- easterly direction, and the...
J.A.P.
Lowestoft, Suffolk.-—At nine o'clock on the night of the 1st of January, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a trawler appeared to be aground on Newcombe Sands, and the life-boat Michael Stephens was launched at...
Eve
Tynemoutb, Northumberland.—At 7.12 in the evening of the 20th of Sep- tember, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a sailing yacht, then two miles to the south-east, was drifting towards Frenchman's Point. The life-boat Tynesider, the...
Margaret
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—During the afternoon of the 12th March the weather got very bad, and several of the local boats at sea returned to harbour. One boat, the Margaret, was still to come, and the motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was...
Brit
Salcombe, Devon.—At 10.0 on the night of the 6th August, 1952, the Hope Cove coastguard telephoned that a red flare had been seen one mile south-south-east of Bolt Head. At 10.10 the life-boat Samuel and Marie Parkhouse left her moorings,...
Success II, Faith Star,Pilot Me II,Provider A and Lead Us
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 11.30 on the morning of the 24th of November, 1952, the coastguard reported that the local fishing boat Success II was mak- ing for Whitby in a heavy sea with a strong north-north-west wind. The No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann...