LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Boats
NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND.—On the 23rd January the Newbiggin fishing-boats went to the fishing-ground at 4 A.M. A severe gale from the S.E. sprung up in the forenoon, and at 12.15 it became necessary to launch the Life-boat William,...
Fishing Boats (1)
Early on the morning of the 9th April the Beadnell and North Sunderland fishing boats put to sea, but the weather became bad and eight of them returned.
At 10.30 A.M. a very strong E.N.E. wind was blowing, with a very heavy...
Garaid
On the evening of the 21st May the look-out reported that a small cutter-rigged yacht was ashore, about one mile south of the station, on Caister Shoal. A squally W. wind was blowing and the sea was smooth.
The yacht was...
The S.S. Matrix
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Magrix, of Hull, was at anchor off Spurn in a whole W. gale, with a rough sea, on the 19th October. At 11.40 A.M. she began to drift and went ashore on the Point. She was on a dead lee shore with the seas...
Ramleigh
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At about three in the morning of the 30th May, 1938, the local fishing coble Ramleigh put off to haul crab pots about six miles south of Whitby. One of her crew of three was coxswain of the motor life-boat Mary Ann...
None (2)
Clovelly, Devon.—At nine o'clock on the evening of the 6th of December, 1957, the coxswain informed the honor- ary secretary that a child, aged two, was very ill on Lundy Island and that a doctor had asked if the life-boat would take him...
Scadan
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 9.30 on the morning of the 17th of June, 1955, a message was received from Cahirciveen asking if the life-boat would search for the fishing boat Scadan, of Tralee, which had not returned from...
Thracian
Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk.—At 6.45 on the evening of the 12th of December, 1955, several men on the beach saw red flares in the direction of North Scroby Sand. Ten minutes later the life-boat Jose Neville was launched. The sea was rough, there...
The S.S. Belfri
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At ten o'clock in the morning of the 29th of June, 1952, a message was received from the agents of the S.S. Belfri, of Oslo, that she was making for Storno- way with a woman aboard who was seriously ill. The...
The S.S. Nestos
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 9.31 on the morning of the 21st of October, 1953, the Spurn Point coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Nestos, of Piraeus, which was anchored in the River Humber, had wirelessed that three of her crew were adrift in a...