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Date: Spring 2004

Volume: 59

Issue: 568

Speedy rescue saves diver Helmsman David Fordy and Crew Member Michael Hoyle were both standing at the front door of the Seahouses boathouse when the call came. An exhausted diver was in difficulty in confused seas near a cliff face. He...

Fortunatus

Date: February 1932

Volume: 28

Issue: 309

At 10.15 A.M. on 20th October information was received from Whitby through the Coastguard that the fishing boat For- tunatus, of Whitby, had been warned not to attempt to enter Whitby Harbour on account of the N.E. gale blowing, and was...

Buckingham

Date: June 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 334

Filey, Scarborough, and Whitby, Yorkshire.

—During the evening of the 25th February, 1938, the Grimsby trawler Buckingham, with a crew of sixteen on board, ran aground at Newbiggin Wyke, just north of Filey Brig. A moderate...

William Thompson

Date: August 1908

Volume: 20

Issue: 229

During a moderate E.S.E. gale on the 1st January signals of distress were observed at 9.30 A.M. on a schooner lying at anchor in Rosslare Bay. The crew of the Life-boat Tom and Jennie were assembled, and in a heavy sea the boat proceeded to...

Two Rigid Inflatable Boats

Date: Spring 1993

Volume: 53

Issue: 524

D Class rescues man in shallow water and heavy breaking seasJohn Pearson, helmsman of Whitby's D class inshore lifeboat, has been awarded the RNLI's Bronze Medal for his seamanship and bravery following a service in conditions at the...

A Martinet Aeroplane

Date: 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1943

OCTOBER 8TH. - MINEHEAD, SOMERSET.

A Martinet aeroplane had come down in the sea, but only wreckage was found. - Rewards, £18 2s.

(See Watchet, “ Services by Shore-boats,” page 65.).

Award to Aberdeen Doctor

Date: June 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 420

DOCTOR J. LEIPER, of Aberdeen, has been awarded a special certificate on vellum for the part he played when he was transferred at great risk from the Aberdeen life-boat to a German trawler to treat an injured man.

At 5 p.m....

Category: Awards

Fairy Maid

Date: August 1913

Volume: 22

Issue: 249

During a strong W.S.W. gale and very heavy sea, on 6th March, flares were observed from the Fairy Maid, of Padstow, which was in distress close to the Clipera Rocks. On reaching the vessel the steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland found...

Steady

Date: June 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 412

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...

Chrissie Jane

Date: November 1934

Volume: 29

Issue: 320

Cromarty.—Three boys went out in the fishing yawl Chrissie Jane, of Cromarty, on the 29th August, but found themselves unable to manage the boat, and were carried towards the dangerous King's Sons' Reef. A moderate W.S.W. wind was...