LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tavy
PADSTOW, CORNWALL.—The ketch Tavy, of Plymouth, entered the harbour at 7 P.M.
on the 14th February, but was unable to take a pilot owing to the rough weather, the wind blowing a whole gale from the S.E. and a very heavy sea...
Amber Queen
Stromness, Orkneys.—At 4.8 on the afternoon of the 10th of March, 1956.
the Kirkwall coastguard rang up to say that he had received a message from the Wick radio station that the fishing boat Amber Queen, which had a crew...
Silver Medal Service
A cargo ship on passage to Egypt got into trouble off the Devon coast in heavy seas and gale force winds when her 5,260-tonne load of timber shifted, causing a severe list.
Salcombe and Torbay’s all-weather lifeboats...
Category: Articles
Several Fishing Cobles
NEWBIGGIN.—On the 8th November, a very heavy gale from the N.E. sprang up at about 10 A.M., and several fishing cobles which had gone out at 4 o'clock, when it was quite calm, were in very great danger. At 1 P.M. the storm increased to...
Advance
On the 22nd August a whole gale of wind blew from the N.E., the sea was very heavy, and^as risk would be incurred by the fishing craft in returning to port, the Life-boat was launched at 4.30 A.M. At 5 o'clock the lugger Advance capsized...
Nirvana
Dover, Kent.-—At about 1.40 P.M. on the 5th June, 1938, the Sandgate coastguard reported that a yacht had been dismasted half a mile S.S.W. of the Admiralty Pier. A S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat Sir William...
The Motor Pleasure Vessel Southend Britannia
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—During the morning of the 29th of March, 1952, the local motor pleasure vessel South- end Britannia parted her moorings in bad weather and was driven ashore a hundred yards east of the pier. The owner asked for the...
Fishing Boats
Gourdon, Kincardineshire.—On the morning of the 10th of January, 1951, the Gourdon fishing fleet was overtaken by a south-south-easterly gale with a very rough sea. As the harbour en- trance was dangerous the life-boat crew were assembled in...
A Catamaran
LAUNCHED AGAIN At 3.10 on ryth April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a catamaran had capsized two miles south-east of the life-boathouse. The life-boat Watkin Williams was launched at 3.16 in a south-westerly wind...
The Harkaway and a Lugger
WORTHING.—On the 1st June, in consequence of a sudden gale from S.W., a very heavy sea was set up on the coast about Worthing, and a number of fishing-boats at anchor were placed in great peril—some drove from their anchors; the Life-boat...