LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Coronation Queen
Runswick, Yorkshire. On the 29th August, 1961, the fishing boat Corona- tion Queen left Staithes for the fishing grounds at 4.30 in the morning. She was due back at one o'clock, but some two and a half hours later she had not returned....
The S.S. Gudrun
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 6.45 on the morning of the 16th of October, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a message had been intercepted from the S.S. Gudrun of Norway stating that her deck cargo of timber...
The Institution's Income at a Glance
How each £100 of the Institution's Income was obtained in 1937.
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Category: Accounts
Steady
Berwick-Upon-Tweed, Northumberland.
At 1.40 p.m. on Monday, 1st February, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Berwick Harbour Commissioners pilot boat went out to bring in the Dutch coaster...
Fig1: There Was Little Growth of Weeds Or Barnacles on Friendly Forester When She Was Hauled Out This Year But Herbert Larter District Surveyor Lifeboats (E) Recognises Th
Fig.1: There was little growth of weeds or Barnacles on Friendly Forester when she was hauled out this year, but Herbert Larter, district surveyor lifeboats (E), recognises the familiar marks left by questing mullet mouths.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Five Fishing Vessels and Success
At 10.26 a.m. on 26th February, 1965, the coxswain was informed that conditions on the harbour bar were becoming very dangerous and that six local fishing boats were still at sea. The life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 10.30 in a...
A Motor Boat
No survivors from capsized motor boatThe capsize of a Coastguard rigid inflatable boat added a further twist to a service by Salcombe lifeboat when she was searching in heavy seas and an onshore Force 7 wind on 28 May 1995.
Plymouth
Fleet Chief Petty Officer Charlie Haydon at HMS Raleigh, Plymouth, has pushed back the frontiers of sponsored fund raising yet one stage further. This is a sponsored whaler smash. Two teams of new recruits to the Navy, armed with sledge... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Fishing Lugger
On the 24th August last, a fishing-lugger, belong- ing to Sunderland, having struck on a sunken anchor, became disabled, and drove amongst the rocks oft' Cullercoats Harbour, the wind blowing strong from the N.E. at the time. The...
Fishing Cobles
On the 29th June at 10.2 A.M. the coxswain reported that the local cobles were in danger off St. Paul's Point, as the sea was making and the wind rising. The weather was fine but a strong north- easterly breeze was blowing, with a...