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A Boat (3)
JUNE 18TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. During the morning a small boat with five boys on board was seen two miles N.N.E. from the life-boat station. A moderate S.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. The boat was kept under observation and at 1...
Lifeboat Lexicon
Continuing our occasional series explaining lifeboat terms and operations Lifeboat Numbers...
There is a logic to the numbers seen on the side of lifeboats, and once you've cracked the code the combination can tell you...
Category: Articles
Endeavour and Eliza Bell
ABEBSOCH, NORTH WALES.—The Mabel Louisa Life-boat was launched, at 2.30 A.M.
on the 29th of April, with much difficulty, the night being very dark, the tide far out, and a very heavy sea breaking on the shore. She proceeded...
Three Fishing Cobles and a Pilot Coble
WHITBY.—At noon on the 20th April, daring calm weather and a heavy sea, three fishing cobles and » Hartlepool pilot coble, the latter with only one man on board, were observed making for Whitby Harbour. It was considered unsafe for them...
Escape
HARTLEPOOL.—On the 28th November, at about 1.50 A.M., the ketch Escape, of Goole, was observed making for Hartlepool, and showing signals of distress.
The sea being very high, the No. 3 Lifeboat John Clay Barlow put off and...
Joesphine
.—,On the 3rd March the barque Josephine, of London, whilst bound to Exeter with a cargo of lead, sprang a leak. In answer to her signals of distress the No. 1 Life-boat B.A.O.B. was launched and proceeded to her. On getting alongside it was...
Sally
Dover, Kent. At 8.18 on the morning of the 27th of October, 1959, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel needed help one mile west of Dover. At 8.45 the life-boat Southern Africa put out in a severe south- westerly...
Maggie Ross
STAITHES, YORKSHIRE. — The steam trawler Maggie Ross stranded on the rocks at Boulby in hazy weather about 4 A.M. on the 27th March, while bound from Aberdeen to Hull with a cargo of fish. About 7 A.M. three of the crew of the vessel arrived...
The S.S. Fawn
STRANDED STEAMER TOWED IN Appledore, Devon. — At 5.30 in the afternoon of the 19th of December, 1947, the Westward Ho coastguard tele- phoned that a steamer was firing white rockets half a mile north-west of the Bar Buoy and the...
Evelyn and Margaret , Hilda, and Premier
Nov. 3RD. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.
Three local fishing cobles were at sea. The wind was light from the S.E., but the sea was very rough. At 12.20 P.M. the motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched and found the coble...