LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rosedene
DECEMBER 4TH. - SEAHAM, DURHAM.
About 4.40 A.M. the coastguard reported a vessel aground at Hawthorne Point, two miles south of Seaham coastguard look-out.A light S.W. wind was blowing, with a ground swell, and the weather...
Pilot Me and Success
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At about 10 A.M.
on the 18th April, 1938, the motor fishing boats Pilot Me and Success put to sea to haul their crab pots. Theweather was showery, and the sea strong. On the flood tide the sea grew worse...
Charles H. Merz
ESCORT AFTER MOTOR VESSEL IS REFLOATED Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 1.30 on the morning of the 31st May, 1963, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a vessel was reported to have run ashore at the north pier at the entrance to the River...
Fishing Boats
Whitby, Yorkshire. On the morning of the 17th October, 1961, the local fishing fleet were at sea when a north- north-westerly gale sprang up. The life- boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 11.45 in a very rough sea two hoursafter high...
Havoc, Kermit and Guilding Star
Search in fog A MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC reported to Tynemouth Coastguard on Saturday June 14, 1980, that a ship's foghorn had been heard east of Berwick Lighthouse.
Berwick lifeboat station was informed at 1310 and five...
James Bower Awards
COXSWAIN Richard Evans of Moelfre, Mr. Kenneth Derham of Christchurch, Hampshire, Coxswain Daniel Kirk- patrick of Longhope, Motor Mechanic Evan Owens of Moelfre, Coxswain Harry Thomas of Torbay and Cox- swain Albert Watson of Cromarty ! ...
Category: Awards
La Colina and Steamer Mergus
Penlee, Cornwall. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 25th June, 1961, the honorary secretary received a message that the life-boat would be needed to meet the motor vessel La Colina of London off the Wolf Rock lighthouse and take...
Rosaline Gorgy
DOS AMIGOS TOWED At 10.15 P-m. on 23rd February, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the French trawler Rosaline Gorgy had found the fishing boat Dos Amigos of Newlyn, previously reported missing on passage from Fishguard...
Rodent
Clacton-on-Sea and Southend-on- Sea, Essex. At 4.20 p.m. on 2yth November, 1965, the Clacton coastguard told the honorary secretary of the Clactonon- Sea life-boat station that red flares had been seen north-east of Mouse. The Clacton-on-Sea...
Ferndene
Longhope, Orkneys. At 3.32 p.m. on 23rd July, 1965, the motor vessel Ferndene of Sunderland was reported to have developed a dangerous list. She was off the north coast of Stroma island and her crew of seven had inflated a life-raft in...