LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rigged Shrimping Boat Adeline
WINTERTON.—Shortly after 5 o'clock on the evening of the 12th March, the cutter rigged shrimping-boat Adeline, of Great Yarmouth, was observed to ship a sea, when about half a mile S.E. of Winterton, and to instantly founder. An alarm...
Paul Westers
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 12.35 on the afternoon of the 16th September, 1961 ,the coastguard informed the honor- ary secretary that a pilot boat was stand- ing by the motor vessel Paul Westers of Groningen, which had engine trouble, off the...
Sea Hawkinge
Humber, Yorkshire. — During the afternoon of the 31st August the motor yacht Sea Hawk, of Nottingham, got into difficulties after her engine had broken down, and ran aground in a very dangerous position three miles N.E. of Spurn. She was...
Four Fishing Cobles and Margaret and James
AIR AND SEA SEARCH FOR COBLE Filey, Yorkshire. At 9.20 on the morning of the 29th May, 1962, when several fishing cobles were at sea, the honorary secretary asked the coastguard about the weather prospects as conditions seemed to be growing...
Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
THE Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Committee of this Fund was held ; on the 20th ultimo, and was presided j over by the Right Hon. Sir RALPH II. [ KNOX, K.C.B. Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the Hon. Secretary, reported that, not- withstanding...
Category: Meetings
Oceanic Liberty
Teesmouth, Yorkshire. At 1.25 a.m.
on 16th February, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the tanker Oceanic Liberty had gone ashore on the south side of St. Gare lighthouse.
The...
Aubric
Arun tows yacht for 34 miles against NE gale Newhaven's Arun class Keith Anderson was involved in a long and arduous service on 4 April 1988 when she was at sea for nearly six-and-a-half hours in a NE gale, picking up her casualty and...
St. Gerrard
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 6.17 on the evening of the 12th of December, 1957, the motor mechanic told the honorary secretary he had heard from a pilot that flares were being fired by a boat about one mile south of Arklow har- bour. At 6.30 the...
Amethyst
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.^At 5.45 on the morning of the 20th of January, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the fishing boat Amethyst, of Buckie, which had a crew of nine, had run ashore on Trodday Island at the north end of Skye....
A Rowing Boat
LIFE-BOAT HIT BOTTOM Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 11.3 a.m.
on iyth January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a rowing boat, 600 yards off the beach, was in apparent difficulty at Holland...