LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy
Took line to survivor MR DOUGLAS GiBBiN of the Hartlepool Co. Durham, inshore lifeboat, as reported on page 16, was awarded the bronze medal of the RNLI for the part he played in saving the life of a 16-year-oldboy from...
Dirk II
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 3.52 in the afternoon, on the 12th of April, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that the Customs at Brightlingsea had reported a yacht on her beam ends, and high and dry in Ray Sand Channel. At 4.15 the life-boat...
Commerce
NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX.—During a whole gale from south by west, accompanied by a very heavy sea, on the 12th February, a message was received from the Coastguard that a vessel was ashore at the entrance of the harbour, signalling for assistance....
Fishing Boats (1)
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— During the morning of the 20th March, 1939, a message was received from the Seahouses coastguard that seven fishing boats of Beadnell were outside the harbour, but unable to enter owing to the very heavy...
King Athelstan
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 7.54 on the morning of the 10th of March, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that the local steam trawler King Athelstan, with a crew of ten, had broken adrift from a tug and gone on the Newcombe...
Two Fishing Vessels
COXSWAIN ESCORTED Holy Island, Northumberland. At 9.45 a.m. on 26th March, 1964, the second coxswain became anxious about two fishing vessels which were at sea in rapidly deteriorating weather. The coxswain was on board one of them. There...
Helea
GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK.—While the Life-boat John Burch was out for exercise on the morning of the 9th January, a steamer was observed apparently on the Scroby Sands. The boat proceeded to the steamer, which proved to be the Helea, of...
Fishing Boats (1)
On the morning of the llth February the Ferryden fleet of fishing boats, about fifty in number, left Montrose for the fishing grounds, the wind blowing then a moderate breeze from the N. About 11 o'clock the wind increased, and a heavy...
Whitby's D Class Inflatable
Whitby's D Class inflatable on the sen/ice referred to by Nick Botham, when she ferried a party of 27 school children and three teachers - who had been cut off by the tide - out to the station's 44ft Waveney.
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Eleanor
Barrow, Lancashire. At 4.25 on the afternoon of the 13th of July, 1958, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that he had seen a fishing boat in difficulties four miles south-east o the life-boat station. Five minutes later the...