LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Isabella
Filey, Yorkshire.—At 9.50 on the morning of the 25th of September, 1957, a message was received that alocal fishing coble was at sea in worsen- ing weather. The life-boat The Isa and Penryn Milsted was launched at 10.50 in a moderate sea....
Geordie
Newhaven, Sussex. At 9.12 on the evening of the 17th of April, I960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht needed help off the west pier. At 9.30 the life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at low water in a light...
Seaspray
Skegness, Lincolnshire - At 4.5 p.m.
on 14th March, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was in difficulties aboutone mile off Skegness pier. The lifeboat Charles Fred Grantham was launched...
Good Tidings
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. At 8.20 a.m. on 26th September, 1965, a report was received that the m.f.v. Good Tidings of Lerwick was leaking five miles east of Fraserburgh. At 8.35 the life-boat Thomas McCunn, on temporary duty at the station...
Windsor Lad
DECEMBER 13TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
The district inspector was at the station preparing to take the life-boat out for exercise, when at 2.40 in the afternoon the coastguard reported the local fishing coble Windsor Lad in...
Lily, of Scarborough
AUGUST 28TH - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At 8.30 in the morning the coastguard reported that a fishing coble was making distress signals a mile east of Castle Hill. An easterly gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat Herbert Joy...
The S.S. Harley
FEBRUARY 5TH. - CROMARTY. At 6.25 A.M. the Burghead coastguard reported distress signals from a vessel aground one mile west of Findhorn, and the motor life-boat James Macfee was launched at 6.45 A.M. A moderate S.W. wind was blowing, with a...
The Destroyer H.M.S. Walrus (1)
Teesmouth, and Scarborough, Yorkshire.
—At 4.20 P.M. on the 12th February, 1938, a request was received from the coastguard at Whitby for the motor life-boa.t J. W. Archer, as the destroyer H.M.S. Walrus had broken from her...
John Robert, White Rose and Little Madge (1)
Cromer, and Sheringham, Norfolk.—On the morning of the 2nd April the fishing boats John Robert and White Rose, of Cromer, and Little Madge, of Sheringham, each with a crew of two, put to sea in fine weather. The weather changed, and at about...
Rescue from a Norwegian Ship
AT 5.37 on the morning of the 21st of January, 1955, the honorary secretary of the Cloughey life-boat station, Mr.
D. Thompson, learnt from the Tara coastguard that a Norwegian ship was aground on South Rock and needed help...
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