LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Boats (2)
Whitby, Yorkshire. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 7th December, 1961, the second coxswain discussed with the honorary secretary the possible danger to the fishing fleet at sea, as the weather was growing worse, and it was...
Heathery Brae
ESCORT FOR TWO Buckle, Banffshire. At 4.55 p.m. on 16th November, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the seine net fishing boat Heathery Brae was in difficulties eight miles north-north-east of Buckie. The sea was very...
None (3)
MEDICAL CALL At 7.50 p.m. on 8th March, 1966, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would convey a patient to South Uist for hospital treatment as no other boat was available. The life-boat The Rankin, on temporary...
Pulling power
When a man was washed off Whitley Bay promenade into a very lively sea on 20 June, the B class lifeboat from Cullercoats was sent to help.
The man was being repeatedly thrown against the promenade, but the water was too...
Category: Articles
Peep o ' Day, of Wrexford
On the morning of the 21st April the services of this life-boat were again called into requisition. The lugger Peep o'Day, of Wexford, was totally wrecked on the north end of the Dogger Bank, during a strong breeze from the E.N.E. The...
Marguerite
On the 14th Nov. the Ramsgate Life- boat put off, during a fresh gale from the E., to the assistance of a vessel which had gone ashore on the Kentish Knock. After some trouble, owing to the very heavy sea, the Life-boat reached the vessel,...
Britannia, of Leigh
On the 20th October, during a gale from the E.S.E., the steamer Britannia, of Leith, was wrecked on " The Kidge," close to the bar of Holy Island Harbour.
The Britannia, had on board a number of passengers, and...
Brune
BURNHAM, SOMERSET.—Soon after 7 P.M.
on the 7th August, the coxswain of the Life-boat saw that the schooner Brune, of Bridgwater, had stranded near Highbridge Pill, and that the crew had been compelled to take to the...
Kyanite
SELSEY, SUSSEX.—On the 8th February the Life-boat Two Sisters was launched to the aid of the three-masted schooner Kyanite, of Guernsey, which was in a position of much peril, having parted from both her anchors during a strong westerly gale...
Rambler
ALDBOROUGH, SUFFOLK.—On the 24th October the schooner Rambler, of Folkestone, was seen to be running for the shore at Aldborough with a flag of distress in her rigging, during a heavy gale of wind from S.S.W., and a very rough sea. She...