LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Four Vellums Awarded to Crew Members
AT 1.25 on the afternoon of the 15th August, 1961, the Cromer coastguard received a message from the coastguard look-out at Cley that a motor yacht was burning a smoke distress flare some four to five miles north-east-by- east of the...
Category: Services
Venus, Galilee, Pilot Me, Progress and Lead Us
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 5th of June, 1953, it was noticed that conditions on the harbour bar were dangerous. Local fishing boats were at sea, and at nine o'clock the No. 2 harbour pulling life-boat Robert and Ellen...
Streamlet, Lea Rig, Fisherboy and Crest
Thurso, Caithness-shire. Four seine net fishing boats—Streamlet, Lea Rig, Fisherboy, and Crest—were overtaken by a sudden N.N.W. gale, with a heavy sea, when fishing about eighteen miles west of Thurso on the 9th January, 1939. The motor...
Royal Charter
Humber, Yorkshire. At 8.51 on the evening of the 12th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that the fishing vessel Royal Charter was aground north- north-east of no. 53 buoy. There was a gentle southerly breeze...
December (1)
INVERGORDON, ROSS-SHIRE. On the 21st of August, 1946, the Invergordon and Balblair motor ferry boat was on a run to Invergordon when, at 4.20, she saw a naval whaler capsize. A north-east wind was blowing against the ebb tide and raising a...
Category: Services
An Aeroplane's Dinghy (1)
APRIL 20TH. - NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.
At 12.37 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that an aeroplane towing a target had come down in the sea about two miles west of the harbour. Most of the regular life-boat crew were out...
Douglas Naming Ceremony
THE naming ceremony of the new lifeboat at Douglas, Isle of Man, was held on June 3rd, 1948, with a gale blowing and such heavy rain throughout the day, that it was impossible to hold it in the open. It took place inside the boathouse, and...
Category: Inaugurations
A Dinghy (3)
ESCORT FOR DINGHY WITH TWO CHILDREN ABOARD Filey, Yorkshire. At 7.33 on the evening of the 23rd September, 1962, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report from a doctor's wife that the doctor and two children aged six...
Chaften Winkle, of Aalborg
The life-boat and the steamer also went out on the evening of the 14th January, in reply to signals and rockets fired from the Gull light-ship, during very threatening weather.
On speaking the light-vessel, the men were...
Rosehearty, of Fraserburgh
SEPTEMBER 15TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At six in the morning the coastguard reported a drifter ashore on the rocks near St. Combs. A light southeast wind was blowing, but the sea was rough on the beach and there was some fog.