LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Confederate
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—The Aberdeen trawler Confederate stranded on the Scaurs of Cruden, about nine miles south of Peterhead on the morning of the 16th January. On receipt of the news from the coastguard, the motor life-boat Duke of...
Trip
FISHING COBLE TAKEN IN TOW Seaham, Co. Durham. At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 7th April, 1962, the Seaham coastguard received a report from Easington that a fishing coble was in distress. A gentle west-by-north wind was blowing, and the sea...
Emergency Evacuation
Margate’s all-weather lifeboat, the sturdy 12m Mersey class Leonard Kent, was dwarfed by the vessel to which she was called out on 2 December.
A Russian cargo ship was anchored, waiting for better weather to continue her...
Category: Articles
Eastbourne:
Eastbourne: While the station's 37ft 6in Rather class lifeboat, Duke of Kent, was out on exercise on the morning of Sunday September 9, 1984, a sailboarder was seen from the shore to be in difficulty and the Coastguard asked... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Berthe Marie
Shortly before noon on the 7th December the coastguard reported that a schooner, anchored about three quarters of a mile from the shore, had parted one of her cables and was driving towards the land. The crew of the Life-boat Eichard and...
Widder
TOWED BY TUG Walmer, Kent. At 3.30 p.m. on 9th October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that he was watching the German motor vessel Widder, as she appeared to be in difficulties in the rough sea near Goodwin Fork. A local...
Eileen Summer
Caister, Norfolk. Because of de- teriorating weather conditions on the night of the 17th of May, 1959, anxiety was felt for two fishing boats which had not returned to harbour, and the life-boat Jose Neville was launched at 11.55. It was low...
John Robert, White Rose and Little Madge
Cromer, and Sheringham, Norfolk.—On the morning of the 2nd April the fishing boats John Robert and White Rose, of Cromer, and Little Madge, of Sheringham, each with a crew of two, put to sea in fine weather. The weather changed, and at about...
A Trawler
Horrific conditions for two lifeboats Clogher Head and Newcastle 's Mersey class lifeboats were launched in winds of Storm Force 10 to Hurricane Force 12 on 3 February 1994 when an 80ft trawler reported that she was taking water and...
Buckingham (2)
Filey, Scarborough, and Whitby, Yorkshire.
—During the evening of the 25th February, 1938, the Grimsby trawler Buckingham, with a crew of sixteen on board, ran aground at Newbiggin Wyke, just north of Filey Brig. A moderate...