LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
George and Margaret, Hope-on, John and Margaret, and Our Boys
Newbiggin, Northumberland. — Early on the morning of the 7th April the coastguard reported that five local fishing cobles were out, and that it would be very dangerous for them to make harbour. The sea was very rough, and a very strong,...
Sarah Ann
Caister, Norfolk.—At 7 P.M. on the 10th July, 1939, a yacht was seen to strike the Caister Shoal, near the south end of Caister Beach, knock off, and drift ashore. A slight northerly breeze was blowing, with a heavy ground swell. The pulling...
Onward
Boulmer, Northumberland.—On the 4th October, 1939, at 9.45 A.M. the Craster coastguard reported that the motor fishing coble Onward was disabled a mile off the harbour. A strong E.S.E.
breeze was blowing, with a rough...
Bertha Jane
FISHING BOAT WITH FOULED PROPELLER Stromness, Orkneys.—At 4.27 in the afternoon of January 27th, 1947, a fishing boat was seen making distress signals near the Kirk Rocks in Hoy Sound. The breeze, from the south- west, was light, but...
Nyria
MOTOR PLEASURE-BOAT BROKEN DOWN Torbay, Devon.—At 6.43 in the evening of the 7th of April, 1947, the Brixham coastguard reported that a motor pleasure boat had broken down three miles off Berry Head and was making signals of distress. A...
Aerielle
Cromarty.—At 7.40 on the evening of the 25th of July, 1954, the coast- guard rang up to say that the yacht Aerielle, which had a crew of two, appeared to be in difficulties six miles east-by-north of South Souter. At eight o'clock the...
Louisa Twyzell
Newbiggin, Northumberland. — At 10.15 on the morning of the 16th of Sep- tember, 1954, the coxswain reported that the weather was worsening and that three fishing cobles were at sea. The coastguard stated that one of them was heading south,...
The Cromer Lightvessel
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 11.25 on the morning of the 2nd of October, 1954, the Superintendent of Trinity House at Yarmouth asked if the life-boat would fetch a very sick man from the Cromer lightvessel. At 11.40 the No. 1 life- boat Henry...
Fishing Boats (4)
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 15th of November, 1954, the weather worsened rapidly, and the crew of the motor fishing vessel Progress, when she returned to the harbour, said conditions at the harbour bar were dangerous. The...
The S.S. Hudson Bay
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 9.15 on the night of the 30th of November, 1954, the Gorleston coastguard reported that the S.S.
Hudson Bay, of London, had signalled that a man on board had fractured a thigh. She...