LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

APRIL 4TH. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.

During the early afternoon a heavy ground swell was running from the north-east. Incoming fishing cobles reported that the seas were growing, with broken water at the harbour entrance. A...

North Sea Hurricane FORCE 9-10 north north east wind; rough sea with a heavy swell; low water; visibility down to about a half to one mile on an overcast morning with frequent hail and snow squalls; Flamborough lifeboat already at sea...

MOST persons in this country are aware that the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has studded the coasts of the United Kingdom with Life-boats; but it is probably not known to many that nearly the whole of those boats are built in London,...

Plymouth.

ON the 3rd October the Plymouth Lifeboat was launched shortly before 10 P.M., in a strong southerly gale, with heavy rain and a very heavy sea, to the help of a vessel which had been driven ashore on the eastern...

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AIR AND SEA SEARCH FOR COBLE Filey, Yorkshire. At 9.20 on the morning of the 29th May, 1962, when several fishing cobles were at sea, the honorary secretary asked the coastguard about the weather prospects as conditions seemed to be growing...

Busy afternoon for Amble Amble's Waveney class Margaret Graham had a busy afternoon on 14 August, attending three calls in three hours.

She was first launched at 1207 to the fishing boat Nina with ten anglers aboard.<...