LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Billow
Signals haviog been fired by the Nore Light-vessel on the morning of the 12th February, the crew of the same Lifeboat were summoned and proceeded to the head of the pier, a distance of about a mile and a half, where the boat is kept moored....
Fair Water
On the same day the Life-boat Arab, also stationed at Padstow, was called out for service, by means of the telephone.
She was launched at 4 p.m., and proceeded under oars to the ketch Fair Water, of Jersey, bound from...
Mouse
CARDIGAN.—Having received information that a vessel was in distress in Cardigan Bay, while a strong N.W.
gale was blowing, on the 7th November, the Coxswain of the Life-boat Lizzie and Charles Leigh Clare summoned the crew,...
A Dinghy
MAN, WOMAN AND DOG TAKEN OFF DINGHY Swanage, Dorset. At 3.33 on the afternoon of the 12th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a large yellow rubber dinghy was drifting out to sea one mile southsouth- east of...
Fulham VIII and Caribon
Sunderland, Co. Durham. At 4.48 on the afternoon of the 4th of July, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Fulham VIII had reported that she had been in collision with the yacht Caribon and that the yacht'...
New Teesmouth Life-Boat Named
LADY CRATHORNE named the new Teesmouth life-boat Sarah Jane and James Season at a ceremony at the life-boat house on the 28th of May, 1960. The life-boat, which is one of the 47-feet Watson type, was pro- vided out of legacies from the late...
Category: Inaugurations
A Ship
JUNE 18TH and 19TH. - ST. HELIER, JERSEY. During the afternoon of the 18th of June a ship had been reported to be on fire about eight miles to the south-south-west of St. Helier Harbour, but the life-boat couldfind nothing. It was thought to...
Fishing Cobles and A Parachute
FEBRUARY 7TH. - FILEY, AND SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. The Filey motor life-boat The Cuttle was launched at 1.10 in the afternoon to stand by the local fishing cobles as a strong south-west wind was blowing and the sea was rough. When the...
Pride of Leinster and M. E. Johnson
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 8.52 on the evening of the 4th of December, 1953, the life-boat motor mechanic reported that flares had been seen north of Arklow harbour. At 9.9 the life-boat Inbhear Mor was launched. The sea was choppy, with a...
Charles
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...