LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hilda, Reliance and Courage
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—Some of the local motor fishing boats were caught at sea by bad weather on the 2nd January, 1939. A N.E. breeze wasblowing, with a rough sea. The Eagle came in and reported that the boats still at sea were in danger...
Kate & Violet
Bridlington, Yorkshire - At 10.52 a.m.
on 5th November, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the coble Kate & Violet had broken down one mile east of the coastguard station. At 11.15 the life-boat...
Cetar
Ramsgate, Kent - At 12.2 p.m. on 17th January, 1969, the east pierwatchman told the honorary secretary that a small motor boat had broken down in Pegwell bay. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis slipped her moorings at 12.11 in a south...
Devotion
Dunbar, East Lothian. At 11.36 on the morning of the 23rd of May, 1960.
the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Devotion of Dunbar had fouled her propeller off the South Carr beacon and...
Moira
TOWED SAFELY Seaham, Co. Durham. At 5.23 p.m.
on yth June, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a fishing coble about 11 miles off the pier was lying broadside to a moderate sea and a fresh westerly breeze....
A Rowing Boat
STUDENTS RESCUED Clovelly, Devon. At 3.50 p.m. on yth May, 1964, the life-boat coxswain reported that two students on holiday had taken a hired rowing boat westward beyond Gallantry Bower. As they would have been unable to return against the...
Lively Hope
At 4.30 p.m. on I4th April, 1967, news was received that the fishing boat Lively Hope had stranded north east of Amble harbour without fuel. The life-boat Millie Walton was launched at 9 o'clock in dense fog in a light north-westerly...
Sea Gypsy
Cloughey-Portavogie, Co. Down - At 7.15 p.m. on 30th July, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser was in distress off Kearney Point. The life-boat Glencoe, Glasgow slipped her moorings at 7.30.
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And Farewell
. . . and farewell to the 35ft 6in Liverpool class lifeboat, a class which has served the RNLI, both as a pulling and sailing lifeboat and then as a motor lifeboat, since the mid 1800s. Grace Darling (below), built in 1954, the last of her... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
S.S. Lowick, of Newcastle
FEBRUARY 2ND. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.
At 11.50 in the morning the coxswain reported a vessel ashore on a slag bank south-east of the South Gare Breakwater. A fresh northerly wind was blowing, with a strong sea and heavy rain....