LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Motor Fishing Vessels Pilot Me and Gem
DECEMBER 4TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At five in the morning the local motor fishing vessels Pilot Me and Gem put to sea in bad weather. During the morning the weather worsened and at one o’clock the coastguard reported that a...
Books
• Patrick Howarth, who retired as the RNLI's public relations officer in 1979, is far from retired from his career as an author. His latest book, George VI (Hutchinson, £12.50) recently published, is a meticulous biography of a shy,...
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AYacht and a Dinghy
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 5.15 p.m. on gth April, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a small yacht was hi difficulties in the Rock Channel.
The life-boat Norman B. Corlett proceeded at 5.20 in a near gale from...
Dolphin, Alex S. Sorbas
Falmouth, Cornwall - At 5.3 p.m. on 7th July, 1967, it was learnt that the sailing dinghy Dolphin was missing on passage from Port Navas to Restronquet.
The life-boat Constance and Crawford Conybeare, which had launched...
The Fishwives of Cullercoats
ONE of the happiest and most success- ful of annual Life-boat functions is the summer Road "Exercise and Launch of the Cullercoats Life-boat at Whitley Bay. On that day the Fishwives of Cullercoats, headed by Mrs. Mary Scott, th;...
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Services of Life-Boats
'-On the 8th of April the brigantine Cebufg, of Whitby , ran ashore in an E.S.E. gale near Bridlington Quay.
The Bridlington life-boat belonging to the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was immediately launched, and...
Category: Services
Storm, of Cardiff
At daylight on the 17th November, the barque Storm, of Cardiff, was observed ashore about six miles from this place, with a signal of dis- tress flying, the wind blowing strongly at the time from the N.N.E. The Life-boat Cheltenham was...
Hopeful
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 2.40 on the afternoon of the 29th of April, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the motor fishing vessel Hopeful, of Thurso, had broken down twenty-five miles south of Wick. At three o'clock the life-boat...
Sunspray II
Ramsgate, Kent - At 3.50 p.m. on 9th November, 1969, news was received that a motor boat was drifting in the bay about one mile north east of Ramsgate and was signalling for assistance. The lifeboat Michael and Lily Davis slipped her...
Ees Teyr
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At 6.15 on the evening of 15th April, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Ees Teyr of Beaumaris had an engine failure and was in need of assistance three miles...