LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Amity
On the 1st January last the Life-boat Augusta, stationed at this headland, rendered good service to the schooner Amity, of Beaumauris, which, while on a voyage from Bangor to Swansea, became embayed in a dangerous position during thick...
Fishing Cobles Dorothy Rose, John and Nancy, Topmast and Sybil Joyce
Filey, Yorkshire.—On the 25th March the local fishing cobles Dorothy Rose, John and Nancy, Topmast and Sybil Joyce put to sea. 'At 9.45 A.M. a moderate N.E. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea and dense fog, and the cobles were in some...
Fishing Cobles
Newbiggin, Northumberland,—On the morning of the 19th October, 1939, the second coxswain reported that six fishing cobles had not returned from the night fishing. A gentle N.E. breeze was blowing. The sea was moderate, but was growing...
A Fishing Boat
GOURDON, KlNCARDINESHIRE. —• One of the fishing boats of this port, while attempting to enter the harbour during a strong S.S.W. breeze with a rough sea, on the 24th February incurred considerable risk, and the Local Committee, knowing she...
A Catamaran
HELPED CATAMARAN Life-boat O.N. 44-001. Later the same day while the 44-foot steel life-boat O.N. 44-001 was coming out of the river Medina after assisting a sailing dinghy, a catamaran was seen to capsize in the fresh south-westerly breeze...
A Dinghy (2)
At 9.25 p.m. on 5th June, 1967, it was learned that a sailing dinghy was in difficulties off the R7 buoy. The life-boat Norman B. Corlett slipped her moorings at 9.40 in a moderate south westerly breeze and a choppy sea. The tide was...
Caleb
A telephone message was received at Margate, about 4.30 on the morning of the 6th August, stating that a barge was in distress off Herne Bay, and steps were at once taken to launch the No. 1 Life-boat Eliza Harriet. Whilst this was being...
Bolivar
NORWEGIAN STEAMER BREAKS IN TWO Dun Laoghaire, and Howth, Co. Dublin.
—On the 4th of March, 1947, the Norwegian motor vessel, Bolivar, of Oslo, ran aground on the northern end of the Kish Bank, seven and a half...
Provider (1)
APRIL 27TH - 29TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE ; ABERYSTWYTH, CARDIGANSHIRE ; PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE ; AND FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.
While the motor fishing vessel Provider was on passage in ballast from Caernarvon to...
Henry Britton, Ex-Coxswain at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
HENRY BRITTON, for 50 years Coxswain of the Life-boat at Walton-on-the-Naze, died on March 20th last, at the age of 79.
He was appointed Coxswain in "1884, when the Station was established, and retired in 1914. During...
Category: Obituaries