LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Fosdyke Trader, of London
DECEMBER 29TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At 11.40 at night the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore at the North Cheek of Robin Hood’s Bay, six miles south of Whitby. A light southerly wind was blowing, and the sea was...
Eloise
Margate, Kent. At 6.56 on the evening of the 17th of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties on Margate Sands. At 7.4 the life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched on...
The Lowestoft Life-Boat Rolling In Heavy Seas at the Entrance to Lowestoft Harbour As She Returns to Port After Escorting a Longshore Boat to Safety on 7th October, 1967
The Lowestoft life-boat rolling in heavy seas at the entrance to Lowestoft harbour as she returns to port after escorting a longshore boat to safety on 7th October, 1967.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Motor Yacht
24th August. A motor yacht had got out of control, but was towed in by a trawler.—Re- wards, £3 15*..
A Motor Launch (1)
Tynemouth, Northumberland. — 26th July. A motor launch got into difficulties, but was taken in tow by a pilot tender.—Rewards, £6 13s..
A Trawler
8th Octo- ber. A trawler stranded but another vessel was standing by and ^she re- floated.—Rewards, £11 14s. 9d..
A Ketch
Weymouth, Dorset 1st January. A ketch had been in difficulties, but was taken in tow by another boat.— Rewards, £19 15s. Qd..
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DEC. 17TH. - HYTHE, KENT. A vessel had been reported attacked by enemy aircraft, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £45 5s. 6d..
An Admiralty Tug
DECEMBER 5TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. An Admiralty tug was in difficulties, but she was taken in tow by a minesweeper. - Rewards, £5 12s..
The S.S. Cornish
The S.S. Cornish Rose, of Liverpool, bound from Fowey to Preston, with a crew of nine, got into difficulties when about twenty-one miles north of Pendeen on the evening of the 6th December. Her fires had been extinguished by heavy seas, and...