LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Cobles (1)
On the morning of the 9th February the Cox- swain of the Life-boat Queensbury went off in his coble, intending to go to his crab-pots. When well outside the break- water he found the sea very heavy and increasing. Knowing that several...
Elizabeth
During a S.E.
gale on the 9th November signals of distress were seen in the direction of the Dogger Bank, and with all haste the Life-boat James Stevens No. 15 was launched to render assistance. When crossing the bar rough...
General Burwood and Struan
A message was received on the 19th January from the coast- guard stating that a vessel was ashore two miles south of Belhelvie coastguard station, and the Aberdeen No. 1 motor life-boat Emma Constance put out at 7.10 P.M. She found the Hull...
Sir Garnet
GREAT YARMOUTH.—Flares and rockets having been observed in the roadstead while a strong N. to N.N.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea, on the 8th September, the Life-boat John Burch was launched at 9.35 P.M. and proceeded in the...
Fishing Cobles
BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND.—On the 26th February the fishing cobles went out line fishing at about 6 A.M., there being then a light N.E. wind. At 10 o'clock the wind shifted to the E. and commenced to blow strongly, accompanied by a very...
Life-Boat at Sea Talks to London
ON 22nd July last there took place the first telephone conversation between a life-boat at sea and the head office of the Institution in London. On that day the representatives of the Marconi International Marine Communication Co. visited...
Category: Articles
Day Dawn, of Peterhead (1)
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. — On the 7th December, 1937, at about 2.30 P.M., information was received from the coastguard that the motor fishing boat Day Dawn, of Peterhead, with a crew of three, had been sighted by the lightkeeper at...
A Raft
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 5.46 on the afternoon of the 28th of July, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the police had reported two boys adrift on a raft in the River Medway between Isle of Grain and All Hallows. The life-boat Greater...
Lead Us
Whitby, Yorkshire. — In the early hours of the 2nd of November, 1956, the motor fishing vessel Lend Us, of Whitby, put out to go to the fishing grounds. By midday the weather had deteriorated, and as the fishing boat was due to return to...
Coxswain Thomas Sinclair
COXSWAIK THOMAS SINCLAIR, of Aberdeen, who died at the age of seventy, had been one of the outstanding coxswains in the Service. He retired in 1949 after having- been coxswain for nearly twenty-five years, during which more than 180 lives...
Category: Obituaries