LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Boats
Whitby, Yorkshire. — In the morn- ing of the 31st of March, 1952, a strong north-easterly wind was blowing. It was increasing, and very heavy seas were breaking on the outer harbour bar. Several fishing boats were at sea, and at ten...
Fishing Vessels
LOCAL FISHING FLEET ESCORTED TO HARBOUR Thurso, Caithness-shire. At 4.30 on the afternoon of the 7th February, 1962, the honorary secretary decided that because of the bad weather conditions the life-boat Pentland (Civil Service No. 31)...
A. Andess
ENGINE FAILED At 5.50 p.m. on 2nd August, 1964, the harbour pilots informed the coxswain that the cabin cruiser A. Andess had radioed for assistance from a position 2| miles north of Hartlepool. There was a light north-easterly breeze with a...
A Sailing Boat
Rolled over ON TUESDAY EVENING, August 24, 1982, at 1938, Mudeford station honorary secretary and a lifeboatman, John Batchelor, sighted a red flare 2l/2 miles south west of the lifeboat station off Hengistbury Head. Maroons were fired and...
Jondee
Engine broken down ON TUESDAY, MAY 11, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Tenby lifeboat station at 1337 that a motor yacht, Jondee of Saundersfoot, was in trouble 300-400 yards off Lydstep Head, some five miles west of the...
Charles Yvonne
At about 6 P.M. on the 8th March a vessel was seen to strike the Haile Sand, and a few minutes later she burnt a flare. In response a boat went off to her, and came back with a message that the Life-boat was required. The crew of the No. 2...
The Sailing Boat Berlin
Helvick Head, Co. Waterford. — At 5 o'clock in the evening on the 7th of January, 1950, information was re- ceived that the sixteen-feet sailing boat Berlin, with a German and his daughter on board, had left Kilmore Quay for...
Coxswain Richard Payne, of Newhaven
By the death, on 3rd June last, of Coxswain Richard Payne, of Newhaven, at the age of fifty-seven, the Institution loses one of its most distinguished Coxswains. He was appointed Bowman in 1911. A year later he became Second Coxswain, and...
Category: Obituaries
Arion
SUNDERLAND, SOUTH OUTLET. While a whole gale was blowing from E.N.E., accompanied by a very heavy sea, snow and hail, on the 26th March, the threemasted schooner Arion, of Bremerhaven, laden with coal, stranded on Hendon Beach and became a...
The Steamers Haiti Victory and Duke of York
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—Early on the morning of the 6th of May, 1953, the United States steamer Haiti Victory collided with the British Railways passenger steamer Duke of York two miles east-south-east of the Galloper lightvessel. The...