LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Boats
Be- tween 7 and 8 A.M. on the llth May, when the fishing-boats were at sea, the wind began to freshen and the sea made very rapidly. As it was dangerous for the boats to attempt to take the harbour the Life-boat Theophilus Sidney Eclialaz...
Fishing Cobles (2)
On the 17th March the N.N.E. wind increased, causing a heavy sea on the bar, and as two of the cobles belonging to WThitby were still at sea the No. 2 Life-boat John Fielden was launched to their assistance. Considerable anxiety was felt...
62 Lives Rescued
The London motor vessel Tapti, wrecked in the Outer Hebrides (See page 161). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Yacht (5)
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex - At 11.29 a.m. on 29th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was aground on the West Barrow sands. The life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was launched at 11.45 in a gentlewesterly breeze...
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
Cuba
The Life-boat Joseph and Mary was launched from this station, at 8.30 A.M. on the 24th October, to go to the assistance of the brig Cuba, j of Abo, bound from that port to London, ! having a crew of 8 men. The vessel had I gone on shore on...
Fairlie and Jane
On the 27th September, at 3.30 A.M., signals of distress having been shown by the schooner Fairlie and Jane, of Beaumaris, bound from Dublin from Llanaelhaiarn in ballast, during a strong gale from the W.S.W., the Thomas Fielden Lifeboat put...
Wave
ST. IVES, CORNWALL.—The ketch Wave, of Gloucester, bound from Padstow for Sydney, in ballast, was seen running for the harbour on the morning of the 21st March. As a strong N.N.E. gale was blowing at the time, and there was a very heavy sea,...