LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Cobles (5)
Two of the fishing cobles belonging to Flam- borough were overtaken by a moderate S.E, gale and very heavy sea when out fishing on the 22nd December. As considerable anxiety was felt for the safety of the men in the boats, the No. 2...
Fishing Cobles (1)
During a strong S.E. gale with a very heavy sea on the 21st March, the Life- boat Ada Lewis was launched to the assistance of twelve fishing cobles of New biggin, which had been overtaken while at sea by the gale. Two of the cobles were...
A Bronze Medal Service at Blyth
ABOUT five in the evening of 23rd December, 1938, the coastguard rang up the life-boat station at Blyth, Northumberland, to report a ship, firing rockets and blowing her whistle, about three miles east of Newbiggin Point. At 5.15 the motor...
Category: Services
A Pinnace (1)
LERWICK'S 27 HOURS' SEARCH.
Lerwick, and Aith, Shetlands.—4th October, 1939. In the morning a Royal Air Force aeroplane came down on the sea about twenty-five miles N.E.
of the N.E. corner of...
A Small Boat (4)
On the 31st March a visitor went for a row in a small boat, but was carried out to sea by the wind and tide. He was seen by the coastguard, and the motor life-boat Westmorland was launched to his help at 12.23 P.M. A strong W.S.W. breeze was...
Fishing Boats (2)
Runswick, Yorkshire.—At about 7 A.M. on the 20th May, 1938, the Staithes fishing fleet put to sea. The weather was fine, but a moderate sea was running. A moderate north breeze sprang up, and the sea became very heavy near Staithes harbour,...
Restless Wave
Arbroath, Angus.—On the morning of the 2nd June, 1938, the local fishing bDat Restless Wave, returning t'o harbour, missed the tide, and lay off the harbour bar to wait for sufficient water to enable her to enter. The wind rose, making...
A Silver Medal Service at Peterhead
JUST before 10 o'clock on the night of the 18th January last, the Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Coxswain received a telephone message from the Coast- guard that a vessel was ashore on St-otstown Head, three-and-a-quarter miles north of...
Category: Services
Quest and Prosperity
Flamborough, Yorkshire.—During the afternoon of the 13th of January, 1948, the wind increased to a west- north-west gale while several fishing cobles were at sea, and at three o'clock the motor life-boat Elizabeth and Albina Whitley was...
Violet
WhitehiUs, Banffshire.—At 10.23 on the night of the 25th of August, 1948, the Banff coastguard telephoned that the local motor fishing boat Violet, with a crew of two, was overdue, and fishermen reported flashes a quarter of a mile to the...