LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Cobles
ESCORT FOR NINE COBLES Filey, Yorkshire. At 9.30 on the morning of the 13th April, 1962, when nine cobles of the local fishing fleet were at sea in a freshening wind, the honorary secretary decided to launch the lifeboat The Isa & Penryn...
Premier
MAY 27TH. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.
At daybreak the coble Premier had gone out to attend to her crab pots. By 8.30 there was thick fog and a heavy sea was breaking at the pier head. There was a breeze from the north-east....
Silver Line and Star of Hope
NOVEMBER 28TH. - RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE. At seven in the morning the Staithes fishing fleet put to sea in moderate weather, but by ten o’clock a gale was blowing, with a very rough sea, and at 10.15 the motor life-boat Robert Patton - The...
Palestine, of Whitby
The new boat, presented by the Free- masons of "Warwickshire, and named the Lady Leigh, soon inaugurated its mission of mercy, it having been called out on service on the evening of Sunday the 10th Nov. The brig Palestine, of Whitby,...
The S.S. Epidauro
During a thick fog on the 13th February the s.s. Epidauro, of Lusinpiclo, whilst bound from the Mediterranean to Swansea in ballast, stranded in the vicinity of the Overton Cliffs, about one mile to the west of Port Eynon Point.
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Rescue After Two Tankers Collide
AT 10.20 on the night of the 25th of October, 1960, two coastal tankers collided near the entrance to the dock at Sharpness on the Rivern Severn.
One was the Arkendale, which was loaded with 206 tons of diesel oil. The...
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Atlas
SEATON CAREW, Co. DURHAM.—On the llth March, at about 8.30 P.M., during a violent gale from the N.E., accompanied by thick snow-showers and a very heavy sea, signals of distress were exhibited from the Long Scar Books off this...
S.S. A.F.A.
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides - At ii a.m. on 9th March, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that they had received a call from the owners of the Fleetwood trawler SSAFA saying that the vessel had on board a seriously injured...
Caribia
MARCH 5TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. The Dutch motor vessel Caribia, which had gone ashore on the Scroby Sands, and to the help of which both the Caister and Gorleston life-boats had been launched on the 26th and 27th of...
DOCTOR's GALLANTRY RECOGNISED
DR. E. J. GORDON WALLACE, who is chairman of the Weymouth life-boat station branch, and also its honorary medical adviser, has been accorded the R.N.L.I.'s thanks on vellum for gallantry when helping to take a sick woman off a Soviet...
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