LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rayella
MFV on lee shore THE LAUNCHING AUTHORITY Of Whitby lifeboat station was informed by Tees Coastguard at 0725 on Thursday April 8, 1982, that the coaster Nesam had observed the 60ft fishing vessel Rayella broken down in an onshore gale three...
Coxswain W. J. Harvey
COXSWAIN W. J. HARVEY of Newhaven, who died on the 27th March, 1962, had been a member of the Newhaven crew for twenty-two years. He was appointed coxswain in 1948 and retired in 1961. Coxswain Harvey, who was an employee of British Railways...
Category: Obituaries
Fishing Cobles
Whitby, Yorkshire.—After a sudden heavy squall about eight o'clock in the morning on the 17th of December, 1949, the coastguard and coxswain observed that a number of small fishing cobles were in danger of being swamped by the seas....
Brilliant
A flag was observed on a schooner at anchor about two miles off the harbour during a moderate breeze from the W.S, W.
on the 13th February. The trawl boat Nerbudda was seen to speak her and the flag was hauled down. On the...
Seniority
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 10.2 on the night of the 28th of March, 1952, the Walton-on-the-Naze coast- guard telephoned a wireless message from the motor vessel Seniority, of London, that she had lost an anchor and was drifting towards...
H.M. Ship
JUNE 22ND. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
The life-boat had put out at the request of the naval authorities to bring ashore an injured man from one of H.M. ships, and a doctor who had been put aboard by seaplane, but the ship could...
Ira (1)
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. On I4th February, 1966, the assistant honorary secretary was asked by the agents of the trawler Ira to lay an anchor and stand by while an attempt was made to refloat the vessel. At noon the life-boat...
Garden Bird Supplies
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Category: Advertisement
A Seafire Aeroplane
OCTOBER 7TH. - CLOVELLY, DEVONSHIRE.
At 3.10 in the afternoon the wife of the life-boat coxswain saw a Seafire aeroplane crash into the sea five miles N.E. by N.
of Clovelly. A moderate N.E. breeze was...
(Left) Lerwick's Arun Class
These dramatic photographs capture an incident on Friday 13 January 1989 when the fishing vessel Boy Andrew ran into a narrow gulley at Trebister Ness on Westray in the Shetlands. Lerwick's Arun Soldian took the crew off by Y boat and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs