LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Wave Dancer
Tyne's inflatable used to reach stranded fishing boat survivors A service to a 17ft fishing vessel and her crew of two in hazardous conditions, among rocks and in rough seas, has earned two men from Wick's lifeboat station the Thanks...
Black Diamond and Karoon
RAMSGATE. — During a moderate breeze from the N.W., and in cloudy and misty weather, on the 21st January, guns were heard from the direction of the Goodwin Sands. The steam-tug Aid and the Lifeboat Bradford were at once manned, and left the...
Albion
OCT. 26TH. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE.
At 1.30 P.M. the coxswain telephoned that he had had a fishing boat under observation since noon. She was trying to beat up from about three miles south of the Central Pier, and seemed to...
Sardinia
SEPT. 27TH. - STROMNESS, ORKNEYS.
At 1.30 A.M. the Kirkwall coastguard reported that a Norwegian steamer was ashore at Burness, Sanday, nearly fifty miles away.
The weather was fine, with a light N.E....
First time
4 November 2011: It was a big moment for 17-year-old Matt Ratcliffe, Tobermory lifeboat’s newest and youngest crew member, when his pager went off for the first time. The crew towed home a fishing vessel that had...
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David Jolly
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Fishing Cobles
On the 30th November, whilst four of the fishing cobles were at sea, the wind increased and the sea became very heavy. When the boats were returning it was seen that they were in imminent danger off Newbiggin Point, and the Life-boat Ada...
Fishing Boats
The new motor Life-boat John A. Hay was launched in a strong S.E. gale to assist some of the small fishing boats, engaged in lobster fishing, which were in difficulties, owing to the severity of the weather. The Life-boat searched for some...
Ziska, of Liverpool
AUGUST 2 8TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 10.15 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that a small yacht going north might need help. A strong southsouth- east wind was blowing and there was a heavy swell. At 10.55 the...
An Aeroplane (98)
AUGUST 2 1 ST. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
An enemy aeroplane had been shot down, but the life-boat, aeroplanes and naval vessels which took part in the search could find nothing, although the British pilot who had shot down the...