LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
None (12)
20th De- cember. Reports of guns had been heard, but no trace of any vessel in distress could be found.—Permanent crew. Rewards, 9*..
Fishing Cobles
Fifteen motor cobles went out fishing at 7 A.M. on the 27th October in fine weather. By 9.30 A.M. a storm was coming up and the sea was growing rough. At 10.5 A.M. conditions were so bad that the pulling and sailing life-boat Hollon the...
Diana (1)
Lythatn-St. Anne's, Lancashire, and New Brighton, Cheshire - At sevenminutes past midnight on I5th October, 1966, the coastguard informed the coxswain of the Lytham-St. Anne's life-boat that a fishing boat which left Crossens at 10...
Christiane II
Newhaven, Sussex. — On the 26th of March, 1951, the Newhaven life- boat rescued the crew of six of the Belgian trawler Christiane II, of Ostend.
Rewards: to Coxswain William JHarvey, the 'thanks of the Institution on...
Hasty Lady
Engine failure THERE WAS A northerly near gale, force 7, blowing and a rough sea when the relief 47ft Watson class lifeboat, T.G.B., on temporary duty at Lowestoft, left her mooring at 1832 on the evening of Friday October 5, 1984. She was...
Provider A
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 10.15 on the night of the 3rd of September, 1952, the coxswain received a wireless mes- sage from the local fishing boat Pro- vider A that her engine had broken down and that she would need help to enter the harbour. At...
Integrity
Shortly before 8 P.M. on the 20th July a trawler, when trying to make Pakefield Gatway, struck on the N.E. part of the Newcome sands.
The coxswain of the Life-boat observed the accident, assembled the crew, and at once...
The S.S. Asse (1)
Amble, and Boulmer, Northumber- land.—17th October, 1939. A steamer had been reported in distress. Her position was given as nine miles S.E. of Coquet Island, and the Amble motor life-boat was launched. A warning of an air-raid had been...
None (2)
St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 8.5 on the evening of the 22nd of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man who had fallen down the cliff at Ramsey Island was injured, and that the services of the life- boat...
A Yacht (3)
Cromer, Norfolk. At 3.17 on the afternoon of the 17th of August, 1959, the motor mechanic, who was in the boathouse, saw a yacht capsize half a mile off the slipway. The no. 1 life- boat Henry Blogg was launched im- mediately. She was manned...