LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Yankee Girl
Ballycotton, Co. Cork. At 6.15 on the evening of the 8th of October, 1960, the coxswain reported that the motor fishing boat Yankee Girl had not returned from fishing at Youghal Bay. A near gale was blowing from the north-west, and there was...
RNLi Membership
MEMBERSHIP of the R.N.L.I, is being introduced to provide an additional source of regular revenue over and above that raised by branches and guilds. There will be three forms of membership.
These are: (a) Life Members: a...
Category: Articles
Squirrel
The Montrose No. 1 Life-boat Augustawas launched at 2 P.M. on the 19th March, during an E. wind and a sea which was breaking heavily on the bar, so as to be in readiness to render assistance to two small fishing boats, of Ferryden, which had...
Barge Lord Nelson
— At about 2 A.M. on the 3rd October, the Cox- swain of the No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane was called up and informed that a vessel near the North Bank had dragged her anchors, and was burning flares for assistance. He hastened to the Boathouse,...
None (13)
Whitehills, Banfishire.—4th December.
At 7.10 A.M. the coastguard reported that a distress flare had been seen about three miles N.W. of East Head. A strong north-westerly gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea. The...
Two Sisters
JANUARY 5TH AND 6TH. - NEWBIGGIN, AND NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 5.5 P.M. the coast-guard reported to the Newbiggin station that the sixteen-feet fishing boat Two Sisters, of Newbiggin, had not returned. An...
Cormorant
Soutbend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.20 on the night of the 7th of June, 1949, a message was received from the police station that two men were clinging to a yacht which had capsized three-quarters of a mile oft Chalkwell Bay, Westcliff, and the...
John Wesley
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— At 1.31 on the afternoon of the 26th of March, 1955, the Seahouses coast- guard telephoned that the local fishing boat John Wesley, which had a crew of three, had broken down six miles south-south-east of...
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...
A Yacht (4)
Ramsgate, Kent. At 5.56 on the evening of the of 20th September, 1960, the watchman the on east pier told the coxswain that a small vessel had been burning flares near the no. 3 buoy.
The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis...