LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

DECEMBER 17TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.

During the afternoon information was received through the coastguard that the motor fishing vessel Helping Hand, of Lowestoft, with seven on board, was in difficulties, but that a tug...

SEVEN LIFE-BOATMEN LOST AT ST. IVES JAN. 23RD. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.

Three minutes before two in the morning, the honorary secretary was rung up by the district officer of coastguard, who told him that a vessel was in a...

FISHING BOAT ESCORTED OVER BAR Wbitby, Yorkshire. At 9.10 on the morning of the 16th January, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the weather was likely to become worse, and that an easterly gale was forecast as...

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CAISTER AND WINTERTON, NORFOLK.— At 10 P.M. on the 1st June, a vessel was seen to get on the Middle Cross Sand and make signals of distress. The Caister No. 1 Life-boat Govent Garden was at once launched and proceeded to the...

On the morning of the 27th November, the fishing-boats were again overtaken by stormy weather, but they all, with the exception of the Indefatigable, reached the land. The Co- Operator No. 1 Life-boat put off at 11.45, and remained in...

Tyne's inflatable used to reach stranded fishing boat survivors A service to a 17ft fishing vessel and her crew of two in hazardous conditions, among rocks and in rough seas, has earned two men from Wick's lifeboat station the Thanks...

4. Richardson's Tubular Life-boat.—The next coast life-boat to be described is "the tubular." By the model of this boat, which is on the table, it will be seen that it is altogether different in principle to any other boat;...