LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Civil Servants' Gift
The first of the new 52-foot glass reinforced plastic life-boats to be built from the latest 52-foot prototype fast afloat boat (see pictures page 109) designed by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution is to be paid for by voluntary...
Category: Donations
Fishing Boats
TROUBLE ON THE BAR At 10.50 a.m. on 2yth January, 1965, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that one of the fishing fleet had encountered a heavy swell on the harbour bar when returning from the fishing grounds. As the weather was...
Yewglen
North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At 5.27 on the morning of the 29th of February, 1960, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that a vessel was ashore on Beadnell Point.
At 5.45 the...
La Bonne Sante
Margate, Kent.—At 10.55 on the morning of the 28th of July, 1956, the coastguard reported that a yacht was ashore on Hook sands. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched at 11.10. The sea was rough, and there was a...
Ramlah, Royal Empire, Sarah, Guide Me and Margaret
APRIL 22ND. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At 7.30 A.M. anxiety was being felt for the safety of some of the fishing cobles, as a very strong N.N.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea. As both life-boat coxswains, and a number of the...
The Motor Fishing Smack Energy
JULY 15TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 2.15 A.M. the KinnairdHead coastguard reported a vessel ashore, firing signals of distress, a quarter of a mile west of Cairnbulg lookout. A light N.N.E. wind was blowing, with a...
Newlands and the S.S. Sylvafield
AUGUST 18TH. - TOBERMORY, ARGYLLSHIRE. The trawler Newlands arrived with sixteen survivors of the S.S. Sylvafield, of Newcastle, an oil tanker, which had been torpedoed and sunk off Barra Head on the night of the 15th August. The vessel had...
Panaghiotis
MARCH 15TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT.
At 8.40 P.M. information was received from the coastguard that a steamer had stranded S.E. of the coastguard station at Jury’s Gap.
A fresh westerly wind was blowing, with...
Sea-Coroner Suggested
An attentive consideration of the wreck chart appended to the Northumberland Report, and a careful examination of the returns of wrecks by the Coast-Guard officers, forcibly impresses on the mind the painful conviction that the greater part...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Margarethe
BROADSTAIRS, KENT.—About 6.30A.M.
on the 4th March it was reported that the Lightships on the Goodwin Sands were firing signals. The Life-boat Francis Forbes Barton was launched and proceeded to the sands, where they found...