LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Going postal
We’ve all had to sort through junk mail – a lot of it goes straight in the recycling and some is put aside for that lazy afternoon when we might want to order pizza, a taxi or a window cleaner. Charities send unsolicited mail too but, for...
Category: Articles
The Rock Lightvessel
The Cox- swain was informed at 5.50 P.M. on the 15th November that the Barrels Rock Light-vessel had fired a rocket, and the Pulling and Sailing Life-boat John Dunn was launched in a strong S.E. breeze with a rough sea. She found that the...
The Motor Fishing Cobles Heather and Venture
The local motor fish- ing cobles Heather and Venture put out on the morning of the 19th February to haul crab-pots. The Heather returned very shortly afterwards, and as a strong N.E. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea, the pulling and...
Lizzie Porter
Lizzie Porter is typical of the many pulling and sailing lifeboats which formed the bulk of the RNLI fleet in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. George Cromarty, her coxswain at Holy Island, was twice awarded the RNLI Silver... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Isabella
FEB. 18TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE. At about 10.25 A.M. two local fishing cobles were behind Filey Brig, where heavy seas were running. A W.N.W. fresh wind was blowing, with a moderate to rough sea. At 10.45 A.M.
the pulling and...
Royal Empire
NOV 13TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
Shortly after 11 A.M. the small fishing coble Royal Empire was expected to enter the harbour. The breeze from the S.W. was light but a ground swell was breaking at the harbour entrance. At...
To the Editor
SIR,—As there have been so many changes of late years in all that is connected with sailors and ships, the loss of life at sea is a subject well worth considering during what may be termed the experimental period. The loss is not so great...
Category: Correspondence
Fishing Cobles (2)
HOLY ISLAND.—The No. 1 Life-boat Grace Darling was launched at about 11 A.M. on the 22ad February, the Kev.W. W. F. Keeling, Vicar of Holy Island, and Honorary Secretary of the Institution's branch, taking charge of the boat in the...
Eventide
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— On the morning of the 15th of October, 1955, the weather worsened while several fishing boats were still at sea.
By ten o'clock all of them had returned to harbour except the local...
Arka
LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY POLISH TRAWLER North Sunderland, Northumberland. At 4.30 a.m. on Saturday the 20th of July, 1963, the Seahouses coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Arka, of Gdynia, was aground on Knavestone Rock....