LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Vessel
Another vessel went ashore on the same sands during a gale from the S.W. on the 1st February. The Lcetitia went off to her, but on arriving alongside, it was discovered that she had been abandoned by her crew.
The men,...
Boy's Own
DECEMBER 6TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. In the early morning several fishing cobles had put out to sea, but shortly afterwards the weather began to get bad, and several of the boats on reaching the fishing grounds, turned back. By 1 P.M. a S...
Various Vessels (1)
Southend-on-Sea and Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—Beginning on the evening of the 31st of January, 1953, floods inun- dated areas in the east of England to an extent unknown in this country in living memory. The Southend-on- Sea life-boat was...
A Dinghy
Dinghy capsize A LIFEBOATMAN, John Strachan, who is skipper of a ferry running from Largs Pier to Cumbrae, and Matthew Ramsay and Donald McMillan, skippers of fishing vessels Sea Nymph and Mhari Bhan, who were mooring their boats at Largs...
Welcome
On the 12th September a gale from the N. suddenly sprang up. About fifty fishing boats were lying at anchor in the roads, and were in great danger of being driven ashore. Part of their crews had landed with their fish, and as they were...
Seven Fishing Cobles
During a strong gale on the 10th March the : Newbiggin Life-boat, William Hopkinson of : Brigliouse, was launched to the assistance i of seven fishing cobles, which had been overtaken by the storm which had sud- i denly sprung up,...
Agenese
WINTERTON, NORFOLK.—Signal guns were fired by the Newarp Lightship on the morning of the 5th May and a vessel with only one mast standing was seen to be drifting on the outer side of the lightship.
The Life-boat Margaret...
Kingfisher and Just Reward
The life- boat crew kept a watch on the morning of the 4th November, as the local fishing cobles Kingfisher and Just Reward were at sea, an east gale had sprung up and the sea was making. At 12.30 P.M. the sea was very rough and the second...
Success (1)
At 9.20 p.m. on loth May, 1967, a red flare was reported to have been seen half a mile off Pakefield rifle range. The lifeboat Frederick Edward Crick slipped her moorings at 9.30 in a fresh easterly wind and a choppy sea. The tide was...
Paul Rykens
Aberdeen.—At 9.27 P.M. on the 15th April the Gregness coastguard telephoned that a vessel was in distress off Berryhill. A later message said that she was about a mile N.E. of the Bridge of Don, apparently aground, and was firing rockets. A...