LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Naess Pioneer
Penlee, Cornwall. On the 16th Decem- ber, 1961, the port medical officer in- formed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Naess Pioneer of London, which was 120 miles from the Scilly Isles, was making for Mounts Bay to land her master...
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TO THE HAVEN Flamborough, Yorkshire. At 10.30 a.m. on 4th November, 1963, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that a fishing coble was still at sea in rapidly deteriorating weather conditions.
At n o'clock the...
A Yacht (2)
Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 15th of August, 1959, the coastguard told the coxswain that a yacht had capsized near Hartle- pool breakwater but added that there were other boats near by. The life-boat crew were...
Duke Senior
WHITSTABLE, Sunday January 19, 1986: a 24ft fishing boat, Duke Senior, with a party of anglers on board ran aground outside the harbour in a strong westerly force 9 gale. She was later re-floated by the rising tide and at 1417 she was...
The S.S. Rubis Law
NOV. 2 8TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 4.15 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel had been damaged by enemy action about one and a half miles E.N.E. of the Tongue Light-vessel. A light S.W. breeze was blowing and the sea was...
The Naval Salvage Vessel Salvage King (1)
SEPTEMBER 12TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE, AND LONGHOPE, ORKNEYS.
Early in the morning news was received at both stations through the coastguard, from the naval authorities, that the naval salvage vessel Salvage King was...
The S.S. Ocklinge
COVERACK, FALMOUTH and THE LIZARD, CORNWALL.—On the morning of the 4th March a message was received at Falmouth, from the Coast- guard, that a steamer was ashore at Lowland Point and in need of help.
She was the s.s....
Heron
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At 5.50 on the morning of the 6th of September, 1959, a message was re- ceived that the motor boat Heron, which had a man and his wife on board and was towing a small dinghy, had not returned from a...
Minni
Teesmouth, Yorkshire - At about 5.36 p.m. on 28th May, 1966, the coastguard sighted a small fishing boat being blown out to sea with three people on board. Her engine had failed and she had neither oars nor anchor. In the absence of the...
Harwich:
Harwich: At 0630 on the morning of Friday June 8, 1984, Harwich's 44ft Waveney class lifeboat, John Fison, slipped her moorings to go to the aid of the 107ft schooner, Stina. Returning to Maldon from Amsterdam with nine people on board,... - View image in PDF
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