LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Northward
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT FRASERBURGH SEPTEMBER 2 4TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. Just after two in the morning the coastguard told the life-boat station that a vessel was ashore on the Cairnbulg Briggs, a reef of rocks about two miles away...
Income and Expenditure.—1st April, 1850, to 31st of March, 1851
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Category: Accounts
DASH TO INJURED FISHERMAN
TYNEMOUTH | 2 OCTOBER
The crew of Tynemouth’s all-weather lifeboat made a 36-mile mercy dash to rescue an injured fisherman, after the skipper of a French trawler radioed for help. In challenging sea conditions, the lifeboat crew...
Category: Services
Phillip’s Defence Unit No.1 and H.M. Trawler Almondine
GOLD MEDAL SERVICE AT THE HUMBER JANUARY 6TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. At 7.57 in the evening the station received a request from the extended defence officer for the life-boat to go to the help of Phillip’s defence unit No. l*, which was...
Fishing Cobles
Four days afterwards a sudden gale from N.E., accompanied by rain, sprang up on this coast, and great excitement was occasioned at Eedcar from the fact of there being five fishing cobles out at sea. The gale came on between 7 and 8 A.M., and...
Charles (1)
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT WHITBY FEBRUARY 3RD. - WHITBY, AND SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.
At nine o’clock at night the coastguard telephoned to the life-boat station at Whitby that a vessel was ashore near Saltwick. The tide was...
Chaften Winkle, of Aalborg
The life-boat and the steamer also went out on the evening of the 14th January, in reply to signals and rockets fired from the Gull light-ship, during very threatening weather.
On speaking the light-vessel, the men were...
Isle of Wight Fete
ON 18th and 19th June the Ladies' Life-boat Guild in the Isle of Wight held an "All-Island Life-boat Fete" in the Nelson Hall at East Cowes.
The Hon. Mabel Gough-Calthorpe, the Hon. Secretary of the Guild, was...
Category: Articles
Daisy
TEN SURVIVORS PICKED UP FROM RAFTS Longhope, and Stronsay, Orkneys. At 3.7 on the afternoon of the 4th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the Stronsay honorary secretary that the motor vessel Daisy of Peterhead had sunk and that her crew...
Dyrhaug
Lerwick, Shetlands. At 9.42 on the evening of the 16th of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man living in Lerwick had heard on his radio a Norwegian motor fishing vessel asking for help as she was ashore on...