LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Boats (3)
Bridlington, Yorkshire.—On the llth of November, 1954, the weather worsen- ed while local fishing boats were at sea.
The life-boat Tillic Morrison, Sheffield II was launched at 2.20 in the after- noon. The sea was rough,...
Viscount
MOTOR VESSEL REFLOATS ON FLOOD TIDE Cromer, Norfolk. At eight o'clock on the morning of the 24th November, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor vessel was thought to be aground between Mundesley and...
Summary of Services
The summary of the year's services by life-boats which has previously appeared in the March number of THE LIFE-BOAT will in future be published as a separate supplement. The supplement will be incorporated in all the bound...
Category: Services
Fishing Boats
Selsey, Sussex. During the morning of 23rd July, 1965, the wind increased and anxiety was felt for the safety of four small fishing boats which were about four miles offshore. At 10.30 a.m. the life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched in a...
Stranded Two Days In Cave
The thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been accorded collectively to the crew of the Swanage life-boat for the rescue of a man who had been stranded in a cave for more than two days.
At about 9 o'clock...
Category: Services
Mystic
Eight men plucked from fishing vesselCoxswain Albert Sutherland of the Fraserburgh lifeboat City of Edinburgh has been awarded the thanks of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution inscribed on vellum following a service in which the...
Heckler of Cullen
The boat was also out doing goodwork on the 25th of the same month.
At midnight, lighted torches having been observed from some vessel in the bay during a fearful gale from N.N.W., with snow showers, the...
Christine Elisabeth
HARWICH.—At about 10 A.M. on the 13th November the steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland was called out and proceeded with the Reserve No. 3 Lifeboat in tow to the upper part of the Long Sand, where the three-masted schooner Christine...
Oban
While a strong gale was blowing from W.N.W., accompanied by a heavy sea and heavy rain at intervals, on the 27th October, the Coxswain of the Lifeboat and Officer of Coastguard on the look-out observed a light from a vesselstranded on the...
Daybreak, Daymate and Sirious
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. On the afternoon of the 11th of May, 1958, the deputy honorary secretary and members of the life-boat crew were watching a yacht race, when a sudden squall sprang up, the weather grew worse, and several...