LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Eileen
At 9.30 A.M. on the 13th December information was received j that a barge was apparently ashore on the Hook Sands, and the No. 2 Life- boat Civil Service No. 1 was launched to her assistance. It was blowing a S. by W. gale, the sea was...
Fishing Cobles (2)
STAITHES.—On the llth January, about fifty of the Staithes cobles were out, when a gale from the N. suddenly sprang up, accompanied by a heavy sea. The Hannah Somerset Life-boat went off to their aid, and accompanied most of them to the...
Fishing Cobles (2)
— The fishing cobles belonging to Filey had, as usual, gone off for the fishing in the early morning of the 22nd February. The wind increased, until about 10.30 A.M.
it was blowing a gale, and six of the cobles were to the...
Vigilant
At 8.50 A.M. the Coxswain of the Life-boat John Wesley was informed by telephone that a steamer was ashore at Breaksea Point. The Life-boat was at once launched and a tug engaged to tow her to the scene of the casualty. The vessel proved...
Port Talbot (Aberavon Beach)
Port Talbot (Aberavon Beach) crew and station officials are photographed with their new D class inflatable lifeboat on Saturday March 24, the day she was officially handed over. The lifeboat was the gift of Port Talbot Round Table 335 and... - View image in PDF
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Arklow, Co. Wicklow. At 10.30 on the morning of the 3rd of April, 1958, the motor mechanic was told that the body of a man had been seen in the sea at Arklow Rock. The Civic Guards were informed and they replied that the body could not be...
Susan
On the afternoon of the 22nd August fourteen local fishing cobles were at sea outside the harbour entrance. A moderate N.E.
breeze was blowing, and the sea was rough and breaking owing to a very strong outflow from the...
Imperialist and Silver Line
Flamborough, Yorkshire.—At 1.35 on the afternoon of the 18th of December, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that the weather was deteriorating and that the local fishing cobles Imperialist and Silver Line were still at sea. At 1.45 the...
Erin
WEXFORD.—Signals of distress were shown by the steam-tug Erin, of Wexford, at 5.30 P.M., on the 8th March. The Ethel Eveleen Life-boat proceeded to her assistance and found that her engines had broken down, and that she was in a very...
Maureen
Holyhead, Anglesey. — At 6.10 in the evening of the 26th of June, 1949, the coastguard reported that the motor fishing boat Maureen, with twelve on board, had broken down off the Skerries.
She had reached Skerries Island,...