LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Olive Branch
The Two Sisters Mary and Hannah Life-boat was launched at 12.15 P.M. on the 14th March during a very strong wind from E. by S., and proceeded to the assistance of the smack Olive Branch, of Lowestoft, which had damaged her stern by striking...
Argo
On the evening of the 30th May the coastguard reported that a yacht was on, or just off, the West Rocks, apparently in difficulties. A strong E. by N. breeze was blowing, with a heavy sea. The yacht seemed unable to get away from the rock...
Progress
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 9.10 on the evening of the 13th of September, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been observed off Buchan Ness. The life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow left her moorings at...
Houtman
MARCH 2ND. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON. At 4.30 A.M. information was received from the King’s Harbour Master that signals of distress were being shewn in Jennycliffe Bay, and the motor life-boat Robert and Marcella Beck was launched at 5.10 A.M. A...
Love Divine
The Life- boat James Gowland was launched at 10.45 A.M. on the 17th March, it having been reported that the fishing coble Love Divine, belonging to Staithes, was in great difficulties, having had her rudder carried away. A moderate N.N.E....
Fishing Boats
Filey, Yorkshire.—At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 25th of October, 1954, the life-boat motor mechanic reported that a strong westerly wind was blowing and there was a heavy swell. Local fishing boats were at sea, and at 11.34 the...
A Dinghy
AUG. 16TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT. A dinghy, with two men on board, had been reported as being carried out to sea by the strong tide. The motor life-boat put out in charge of Captain Sir Charles Campbell, Bt., in the absence of the...
Suez
GREAT YARMOUTH.—The Life-boat Mark Lane was launched at 4 A.M. on the 19th April, in consequence of a vessel being observed ashore on the Scroby Sands. It was blowing hard from the E.N.E., with a considerable sea breaking on the shoals. The...
Fishing Cobles
Fifteen motor cobles went out fishing at 7 A.M. on the 27th October in fine weather. By 9.30 A.M. a storm was coming up and the sea was growing rough. At 10.5 A.M. conditions were so bad that the pulling and sailing life-boat Hollon the...
Satyr
Dover, Kent. At 3.7 on the morning of the 30th of April, 1959, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht needed help four miles east- south-east of Folkestone pier. The coaster Clarity was standing by the yacht, and at...