LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lady Morris and Anne Elizabeth
WHITBY. — The fishing-cobles Lady Morris and Anne Elizabeth, of Whitby, which had gone out fishing in the morning of the 5th October, were reported at about 2 P.M. to be just outside the bar, their crews making signals by blowing their...
Teesborough
At about 5 P.M. on the 7th | January a message was received stating that the steamer Teesborougli, of Mid- dlesbrough, was ashore about three- quarters of a mile outside the harbour.
As the sea was not very heavy at the...
A R.A.F. Shackleton Bomber
Holy Island, Northumberland. — At 7.42 in the evening on the 25th June, 1952, a R.A.F. Shackleton bomber crashed into the sea seven and a half miles north-east of Emmanuel Head, Holy Island. The life-boat J....
A Car
Car over cliff LATE ON THE EVENING OF THURSDAY JULY 24, 1986, the coastguard cliff rescue team were called to Port Soderick Bay, 2'/2 miles south of Douglas on the Isle of Man. A car with four people inside had driven over a 330 ft cliff...
I.R.B. Bounces Over Rocks
FOR a service in which Bridlington inshore rescue boat literally had to bounce over rocks on her way in to rescue two young men who had fallen over cliffs the Institution's thanks inscribed on vellum have been accorded to the IRB helms-...
Category: Services
Trial, of Poole
On the night of the 3rd May, or rather at 1 A.M. on the 4th, a very gallant service was rendered by the crew of the Caistor life-boat, in rescuing, under circumstances of much danger, the crew of the schooner Trial, of Poole, 7 in number. On...
Nan McMarrar
Troon, Ayrshire.—There was a fog in the morning of the 4th of March, 1948, and at 10.30 a fisherman of Ayr telephoned that a motor fishing boat was ashore off Ayr harbour. At eleven o'clock the motor life-boat Sir David Richmond of...
A Pram Dinghy
CAVE SNATCH NEWS was received at 7.50 p.m. on 22nd September, 1971, that a small boat had been sighted floating close to the cliffs near Bempton.
It appeared to be unmanned. The maroons were fired five minutes later, and at...
Collisions at Sea
WE extract from the Nautical Magazine the following paper from the pen of Capt. K. B. MARTIN, Harbour Master, Ramsgate.
It contains some pertinent remarks on the subject of collisions at sea, and especially points to an...
Category: Articles
Come Away
YACHT MISSING FOR THREE DAYS Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
At 12.5 on the afternoon of the llth August, 1962, the coastguard telephoned the honorary secretary to discuss the possibility of searching for the yacht...