LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Friendly Star
Thurso, Caithness-shire. At 7.15 on the morning of the 21st of December, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Friendly Star of Lowestoft had broken down with engine trouble west of Dunnet Head....
Beryl
Two men had gone out fishing on the 6th November, in the motor fishing boat Beryl, of Appledore, but had not returned.
At 10.40 P.M. on the 7th, with moder- ate E. breeze blowing and a moderate sea, the Motor Life-boat...
Life-Boats As Ambulances
AT 8.15 on the morning of 8th November last, the Motor Life-boat on the Humber was launched in a strong breeze, with a rough sea in answer to signals of distress, and after travelling for two hours at full speed found a steamtrawler, the...
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Margaret Anne, of Preston
On the 9th February the schooner Margaret Anne, of Preston, laden with coals, was driven ashore north of the harbour of Skerries, in a heavy easterly gale. The Skerries life-boat imme- tliately proceeded to her aid, and took off her crew,...
A Widow's Bequest
DURING a service in the war, on the 26th of October, 1941, the coxswain of the Cromer life-boat, and four of his crew were washed overboard. All five were picked up. The last of them was the signalman, Edward Walter...
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Dover, Kent.—On the morning of the 3rd June six children belonging to the Dover garrison were cut off by the tide under Shakespeare Cliff. A moderate N.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor boarding boat William Myatt, attached to...
Rudolf
HARTLEPOOL.—While a gale of wind was blowing from the N. with a high seaon the 16th May, the brig Rudolf, of Trelleborg, laden, with mining timber, for Hartlepool, was seen driving ashore towards Seaton beach. The No. 2 Lifeboat, Charles...
Portrait of a Coxswain
COXSWAIN ROBERT BUCHAN of the Humber is the superintendent coxswain of the only full-time life-boat crew in Britain or Ireland. He was appointed coxswain in 1959 having served for seven years as a member of the crew. During six of those...
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Loch Alsh
SALTBURN-BY-THE-SEA, YORKSHIRE. — On the 29th November, this coast was visited by the most severe gale experienced for many years past. The wind had been gradually increasing from the previous day; until at S A.M. it was blowing a perfect...
St. Fergus
NORTH SUNDERLAND.—The schooner St. Fergus, of Wick, bound from the Tyne for Inverness, with cement, in trying to pass through the Fairway, between the land and the Fame Islands, during a strong W.N.W. gale on the 17th March, 1885, broke her...