LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Whitby Motor Fishing Coble Jane and Ann
DECEMBER 28TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At 1.45 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that the local Whitby motor fishing coble, Jane and Ann, with a crew of four, was sheltering in Robin Hood’s Bay, Wyke, six miles south of...
George and Martha, and Mizpah
Newbiggin, and Blytb, Northumberland, —At about 10.50 A.M. on the 24th January, 1938, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat had been reported in difficulties off Old Hartley Bay and a little later that she was off Seaton Sluice Point...
A Rubber Dinghy (2)
JULY 30TH. - MARGATE, KENT. A man had gone adrift in a rubber dinghy, but he was picked up by a fishing boat. - Rewards, £6 9s. 6d. (See Margate, “Services by shore-boats,” page 76).
Shoreham Harbour May 2 1987:
Shoreham Harbour May 2 1987:. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Broadcast from Broughty Ferry
AT the beginning of June a launch of the motor life-boat at Broughty Ferry, Dundee, was successfully broadcast.
The broadcaster first discussed the work of the station with Mr. Hunter, the honorary secretary, and described...
Category: Articles
The Caister Disaster Pension Fund
AT two o'clock in the morning of 14th November, 1901, the Beauchamp, the No. 2 life-boat at Caister, Norfolk, was launched in answer to flares of distress seen from a vessel on the Barber Sands.
A whole gale was blowing...
Category: Articles
A Steamer (1)
Skegness, Lincolnshire, and Cromer, Norfolk.—16th May. A steamer was disabled by the loss of her rudder and propeller in bad weather, but was taken in tow by a tug.—Rewards, Skegness, £24 16s. 6d.; Cromer, £20 12s. Qd.
Resolute
On the 8th April the Ketch Resolute of Newcastle-on-Tyne with four men on board stranded while attempt- ing to enter North Sunderland Harbour during a violent N.W. gale. When the vessel struck, a local coble proceeded to her assistance with...
A Fishing Coble
Sunderland, Co. Durham.—26th September, 1939. A fishing coble had been reported in distress, but a pilot cutter took her in tow.—Rewards, £5 2s. 6d..
The Dutch S.S. Prinses Juliana
JANUARY 18TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE. The Dutch S.S. Prinses Juliana, of Flushing, had been reported in difficulties near the shore, but she was found not to be in need of help. - Rewards, £4 17s. 6d..