LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pilot Me
On the 17th February the local motor fishing boat Pilot Me put out at about 8 A.M. to fish off Marske. During the day the sea got up and increased considerably with the flood tide. A strong N. breeze was blowing, with showers of...
Silver Line, Boys Own, Quest and Margaret Ann
Flamborough, Yorkshire. Towards noon on the morning of the 26th of September, 1959, the weather grew worse at a time when several local fishing cobles were still at sea. The sea was rough, there was a strong northerly wind, and it was high...
A German Trawler
The following account of a service by the Helvick Head, Co. Waterford, life- boat on the 17th of December, 1959, was received too late for inclusion in the March, 1960, number of the Life- boat.
At 5.30 in the evening the...
A Sailing Dinghy
Nevvhaven, Sussex. At 3.57 on the afternoon of the 16th of April, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy had capsized in Seaford bay a quarter of a mile off Buckle Inn. The life-boat Kathleen Mary was...
A Fishing Vessel
Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumber- land. At 9.20 on the morning of the 20th of September, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel had reported that she was making water fast and needed help. No precise details...
Margaret Ann
Flamborough, Yorkshire. At nine o'clock on the morning of the 27th of November, 1960, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that the local fishing coble Margaret Ann was at sea. There was a strong north-easterly wind with a rough sea,...
Sovereign
North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At 7.15 on the evening of the 27th of March, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of a radio mess- age received from a local fishing boat stating that she had struck a...
None
Aith, Shetlands. At 4.55 on the after- noon of the 4th April, 1961, Dr. T.
Hepburn informed the honorary secre- tary that a man was very ill on the Island of Foula and asked if the life- boat could be placed at his disposal...
Sailing Dinghies (1)
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 3.50 on the afternoon of the 20th August,1961, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that at least ten sailing dinghies of the Shoreham yacht club had capsized during a local regatta. At four o'clock the...
Cardiff Queen
Ilfracombe, Devon - On 30th July, 1966, the life-boat Lloyd's II was afloat at Combe Martin in connection with the local life-boat flag day. After she left Combe Martin Bay at 8.30 p.m. the pleasure steamer Cardiff Queen was seen about...