LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Cobles
CULLERCOATS.—On the llth January, 1893, twenty-five cobles went out fishing, but as a strong N.E. gale sprung up accompanied by a rough sea they were compelled to return to port. Seventeen of them arrived safely in the harbour, but by the...
Pierre-Louis
FRENCH TRAWLER TOWED OFF ROCKS Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 11.32 on the night of the 9th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a trawler was aground at the end of the north pier of Lowestoft...
Rap
On the evening of the 4th October the steamer Bap, of Lillesand, Norway, when making for Stornoway for coal, struck the Chicken Rock and was beached in Branahuie Bay. The master of the steamer proceeded on the morning of the 5th idem to...
Renown
The Motor j fishing boat Renown left Lerwick at 10 P.M. on 23rd May for the fishing grounds off the Isle of Noss, and as she , had not returned by the afternoon of j the following day, the Motor Life-boat j was sent out at 4.5...
Friends, Provide Us and Serene
Cobles escorted in gale THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Flamborough lifeboat station was told by HM Coastguard at 1010 on Saturday October 15, 1983, that a number of Bridlington based open angling cobles were fishing north of Flamborough Head in...
Gallant Scottish Fishermen. Bronze Medal Awarded
THE Institution has awarded its Bronze Medal to Mr. Hugh MacKay, Senr., of Hilton, on the north-east coast of Rossshire on the Moray Firth, and its Thanks inscribed on Vellum to four other men for their gallantry in attempting to save a...
Category: Services
H.M.S. Research
NORTH DEAL.—While a moderate gale from N.N.W. was blowing, with a very heavy sea, on the morning of the 16th May, a boat, containing a lieutenant, five blue jackets and a marine, belonging to H.M.S. Research lying at anchor in the Downs, was...
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BOYS HAULED UP CLIFF BY COASTGUARD St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 4.30 on the afternoon of the 18th March, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that three boys had been cut off by the tide at Pen Cwm Bach. Further...
Chrysolite
During hazy weather on the 17th October, at about 1.30 A.M. the Coxswain, George Taylor, received a message by telephone from the Amble Coast Guard Station, reporting that signals were being fired from Coquet Island for the Life-boat, as a...
President Harbitz
BULL BAY, ANGLESEY.—On the 6th September it was reported that a ship was ashore abreast of the Middle Mouse islet.
The Life-boat Curling was launched at 9 A.M., proceeded to the vessel, which was found to be the barque...