LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Fishing Cobles
FDey, Yorkshire. At 12.44 on the after- noon of the 6th of February, 1961, the coxswain decided in the absence of the honorary secretary to launch the life- boat as two fishing cobles were still at sea and the weather had...
Wave Crest
Coxswain John Swan of the Lowestoft Life-boat Kentwell was called out by the beach- men at 4.30 P.M. on the 15th February and informed that a vessel was aground at the entrance to the harbour. The Life-boat was launched without loss of time,...
Maria Somes, of London
Soon after midnight on the 9th May, the Lucy life-boat again went out, in reply to signals of distress from a large vessel which had struck on Whitby rocks. Several cobles had previously attempted to get the vessel off the rocks, but the sea...
Fishing Cobles
At about 2 o'clock on the morning of the 6th January three of the fishing cobles belonging to Flamborough put out to sea. About three hours later, when the boats were five miles from home, the N.N.W. wind freshened until it was blowing a...
Marathon Cheques
Kennet Valley sailing club ran a ten hour marathon sailing relay in aid of the RNLI and a local hospice last summer. Friends and relatives of the crews were persuaded to sponsor them for the number of laps of the 'gravel pit' they... - View image in PDF
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Anne, of Plymouth
On the 14th September, the brig Anne, f Plymouth, and the schooner Betsey, of Peterhead, during a heavy gale from the S.W., were compelled to anchor in an unsafe position near Holy head; on the 15th, the wind shifting, they dragged their...
Life-Boat Transporting Carriage
LIFE-BOAT TRANSPORTING-CARRIAGE AS ADOPTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
THE carriage consists of a fore and main body. The latter is formed of a keelway A, A, and of side or bilgeways B, B, in rear of the...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
LIFE-BOAT TRANSPORTING-CARRIAGE AS ADOPTED by THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
THE carriage consists of a fore and main body. The latter is formed of a keelway A, A, and of side or bilgeways B, B, in rear of the...
Category: Articles
Cruiser and Crete Avon (1)
Penlee, and The Lizard, Cornwall.—At 9.40 on the night of the 1st of March, 1956, the St. Just coastguard rang up the Penlee life-boat station to say that the motor vessel Crete Avon, of London, a vessel of 4,100 tons, had been in tow of the...
Charles Livingstone (4)
SILVER MEDAL SERVICES AT BLACKPOOL AND LYTHAM - ST. ANNES Nov. 26TH. - BLACKPOOL, AND LYTHAM - ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE; NEW BRIGHTON, AND HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE ; RHYL, FLINTSHIRE. At noon on November 24th the pilot boat Charles Livingstone,...