LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
H.M. Destroyer Whitshed
JUNE 21ST. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 7.20 in the morning the naval authorities, through the coastguard, asked for the services of the lifeboat to land an injured man from a destroyer coming into the roads, and at 7.40 A.M....
Royal Human Society Award
Anstruther Lifeboat Crew Member Barry Gourlay has received an award from the Royal Humane Society for his rescue of a capsized kayaker on 19 September 2010. Barry was out for a Sunday walk with his wife and daughter when he spotted the man...
Category: Articles
A Fishing Boat
Barrow, Lancashire. At 3.35 on the afternoon of the 25th of June, 1960, the coastguard told the coxswain that the tanker Kellia had reported that there was a small fishing boat alongside her with one man on board who had broken an arm...
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Teesmouth, Yorkshire. At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 19th of November, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man was stranded on the bank of the river Tees near no. 5 light buoy. There were light south-westerly airs...
River Afton
INJURED MAN TAKEN OFF MOTOR VESSEL Penlee, Cornwall. At 10.30 on the night of the 4th March, 1962, the honorary secretary was informed that a doctor was needed to attend an injured member of the crew of the motor vessel River A/ton of...
Fishing Boats
The No. 2 Life-boat was also launched, at about 11.30 A.M. on the 8th August, to the assistance of several fishing boats which had been caught in a gale from the S., and were in great danger while making for Montrose. The Life-boat remained...
The S.S. Cayo Bonito
WHITBY and UPGANG, YORKSHIRE.— About 9.45 on the night of the 21st January information reached the Coxswain at Whitby that a steamer wasashore at Upgang, whereupon the No.
Life-boat, Robert and Mary Ellis,"was launched...
Wesley
On the 8th March, soon after daylight, it was reported that a ketch was ashore on the north part of the Goodwin Sands. The weather up to this time had been hazy. Orders were at once given for the Life-boat Bradford and a tug to go out to...
Harry Martin
At 9.15 P.M. on the llth May it was reported that a fishing vessel, the Harry Martin, of Ramsgate, in trying to make the Har- bour had failed to do so and was driving ashore. The weather at the time was very bad, with a strong N.E. gale...
Fishing Cobles
Con- siderable excitement was caused on the morning of the 16th March in the village of Newbiggin owing to fifteen of the cobles belonging to the port having been overtaken by bad weather when at sea. The boats went off fishing at about 5...