LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Speed Boat
Speedboat AT 1734 on Bank Holiday Monday, August 1986, the crews of Sheerness' 44ft Waveney and 16ft D class inflatable lifeboats were alerted by the duty officer at the Medway Port Office, following reports from Thames Coastguards of a...
Agnes
WINTERTON, NORFOLK.—In a strong S.W. breeze on the 16th March the schooner Agnes, of Faversham, stranded near the Cockle Light-vessel. A yawl put off to her assistance, but on arrival signalled for more help. In response, the Life-boat...
Eliza, of Sunderland, and Firm, of London,
KESSINGLAND.—On the 22nd December, the schooner Eliza, of Sunderland, and the sloop Firm, of London, were observed showing signals of distress on Benacre Point. The No. 2 Life-boat, the Grace and Lolly, of Broad Oak, was promptly launched,...
Clio
ARDROSSAN.—On the 19th December, during a very heavy gale from the W.N.W., the Life-boat Fair Maid of Perth was launched, at 3.50 P.M., and rescued the crew, consisting of eight men, from theSwedish brig Clio, which had stranded at the back...
Carula
On the 18th November, while a furious gale was blowing from the N.E., accompanied by such a sea as has seldom been seen here, the brig Carula, of and from Wyborg, bound for Middlesbrough with cargo of pit props, was seen entering the bay....
Fishing Cobles (1)
On the 4th June when the fishing cobles were at sea it greatly increased, and one boat when j attempting to reach the shore was capsized. Another coble went to the ; assistance of the crew of two men who i had been thrown...
Christina Dawn
Troon, Ayrshire.—On the 3rd of April, 1949, the life-boat Sir David Richmond of Glasgow rescued nine lives from the steamer Christina Dawn, of Gloucester.
Rewards, the thanks of the Institu- tion on vellum to the coxswain...
Comedies of a Cow—And a Burning Chimney
THE false alarms which call out life- boats are very varied. On the 26th October last, with a gale blowing, the Plymouth motor life-boat put out— because a cow had gone wandering.
At 6.30 in the evening the coastguard at...
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Delila
. Aberdeen, and Newburgh, Aberdeenshire.
—Early on the morning of the 4th November, 1937, the steam trawler Delila, of Aberdeen, ran aground about a mile, south of the Belhelvie coastguard station. She was homeward bound...
Windsor Lad II and Isabella
Filey, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 25th of October, 1949, while two local fishing cobles were out fishing, the south-easterly wind increased almost to a gale. The life-boat The Cuttle was launched at 11.10 in a heavy swell and finding...