LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Danish Fishing Vessels Clupea, Rosslau, Anne Stranne and Kami
FOUR BOATS AND CREWS SAVED IN deteriorating weather conditions on 8th November, 1971, the 70-foot steel life-boat Grace Paterson Ritchie, stationed at Kirkwall, Orkney, went to the aid of the Danish fishing vessel Clupea which had broken...
Annie
Sunderland, Co. Durham. — At 3.30 P.M. on the 17th August, 1938, the deputy dockmaster telephoned to the life-boat coxswain that a small boat was in distress. A N.W. gale was blowing, with a choppy sea. The motor life-boat Edward and...
Jessie
HARWICH.—At 5.30 P.M. on the 24th January, the Springivell Life-boat was launched in reply to signals from the Gunfleet Lightship. She sailed to her through a rough sea, and was informed that there was a vessel on the " Heaps," a...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
JOHNSHAVEN, KlNCARDINESHIRE. The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently formed a new Life-boat es- tablishment at Johnshaven, near Montrose, for the service of fishing-boats which are frequently placed in imminent peril when...
Category: Articles
The Motor Fishing Boats Easter Morn, Gem, Pilot Me, Jessie Ann, and Mona
FEBRUARY 11TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
During the morning the fishing boats went to sea. The sea got up and made it very dangerous for the boats to cross the bar on their return. At 2.45 in the afternoon the No. 1 motor...
Lifeboats and Lifeguards In Action
Silver service at Cleethorpes and Numberhe knew he was in grave danger. It would take the combined skills and courage of Cleethorpes and Number lifeboat crews to rescue Dollard in an exceptional service, winning four medals It is a rare...
Category: Services
A Boat and Margaret and Dennis
Tynemouth, Northumberland. On the afternoon of the 1st July, 1961, the life- boat Tynesider was launched to take out members of the Tynemouth and South Shields ladies' life-boat guilds.
After returning from the trip she...
Elizabeth and Ant
On the 2nd and 3rd December, the Herbert Ingram life- boat went out during a strong gale, in reply to signals of distress from the schooner Eliza- beth, of Louth, and the sloop Ant, of Boston.
She brought ashore the captain...
The S.S. Elsie Annie
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wezford On the evening of the 5th February the s.s. Elsie Annie, of Wexford, ran aground on the North Dogger bank, N.W. of the bar. She carried a crew of nine and a pilot, and was bound with a cargo of coal from Ayr to...