LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Vine
MONTROSE.—The Montrose No. 1 Lifeboat, Mincing Lane, was launched at about 2 P.M. on the 19th August, during a moderate S.E. wind, to the assistance of the fishing-boat Vine, of Montrose, which was in danger near the Armat Bank, on which a...
Garth Inn at Helensburgh
It was more a case of Bells than shackles away at the Garth Inn at Helensburgh when Helmsmen Colin Gardner (I) and Michael Roberts whacked the bottle with their trusty hammers.
Giving them a helping hand is John Beaton,... - View image in PDF
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Steamlight
— On the morning of the 8th January the cox- swain telephoned to the honorary secretary that the local motor fishing boat Streamlight had left harbour early in the morning in company with other fishing boats, but had not returned with...
The S.S. Cormorant
At 9.25 P.M.
on the llth June the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was making distress signals two miles off Sarclet Head, which is about five miles south of Wick. A moderate S.S.E. breeze was blowing, with a heavy sea....
Boy's Own and Pioneer
Flamborough, Yorkshire.—The No. 1 motor life-boat Elizabeth and Albina Whitley was launched at 1.30 P.M. on the 19th October, as the weather was very bad and two cobles were at sea.
A north gale was blowing, with a heavy...
Holba
Dover, Kent.—At 5.50 in the after- noon on the 10th of December, 1949, the life-boat bowman picked up a wireless message. It said that the trawler Holba, of London, with a crew of two, had been disabled when four miles south-west of...
Valkyrian
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 9.9 on the night of the 16th of January, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that flashing lights had been seen between three and four miles south-by-west of Newhaven.
There was a fishing vessel in this...
An Aeroplane
Swanage, Dorset.—• At 3.28 in the afternoon, on the 16th of April, 1950, the coastguard telephoned a message from the Portland radar station that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea.
The pilot had dropped by parachute...
Ramleigh
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At about three in the morning of the 30th May, 1938, the local fishing coble Ramleigh put off to haul crab pots about six miles south of Whitby. One of her crew of three was coxswain of the motor life-boat Mary Ann...
G. V. H.
Cr0mer, Norfolk.—The motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 7.20 A.M.
on the 30th May, 1938, after information had been receired from the coast-guard that the fishing boat G. V. H., of Great Yarmouth, was in...