LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Walborg and H.M. Trawler Melbourne
FEBRUARY 15TH. - TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 10.30 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a collision had occurred between two vessels, off the Spanish Battery Point, and that the Swedish steamer Walborg, of Stockholm, had...
A Fishing Boat (7)
Blyth, Northumberland.—23rd December, 1938. Anxiety had been felt for a fishing boat, but she was found by the life-boat fishing, and in no need of help.—Rewards, £8 5*. Qd..
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SCARBOROUGH, Thursday June 11, 1987: Scarborough's 37ft Oakley class lifeboat Amelia searches with the station's D class inflatable boat for a 13-year-old Grimsby schoolboy, swept from the Royal Albert Drive slipway by a large wave...
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FEBRUARY 11TH. - LYTHAM-ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. About mid-day the police reported that a drifting mine had grounded on the south side of the Ribble estuary by the six-and-a-half-mile light. If the mine were not secured the port would have to...
Two Motor Boats
Runswick, Yorkshire. At 7.30 on the evening of the 1st of September, 1958, two motor boats, one towing the other, left Whitby for Staithes in fine weather. There was a strong south- easterly wind, with a heavy swell and an ebb tide. At 8.15...
Blanche
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—At 12.20 A.M.
on the 2nd August, 1938, the police reported that a vessel had been dashed against Skegness Pier. A fresh E.N.E.
wind was blowing, with a choppy sea, and the tide was...
Pass-o-Leny
DEC. 1ST. - LYTHAM - ST. ANNE’S, LANCASHIRE, AND NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 8.45 A.M. the Lytham secondcoxswain reported a vessel ashore by Peet’s Light, south of the 12th Mile Beacon. A S.W.
gale was blowing, with a heavy...
Cap-Lizard
The Lizard - Cadgwith, Cornwall - At 6.48 a.m. on llth September, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a large yacht was firing red flares about two miles south south west of the Lizard West coastguard's look-out....
Fortunatus
The motor fishing boat Fortunatus went out fishing early in the morning of the 3rd May.
She had not returned by 9.30 A.M., and as a strong E.N.E. wind was blowing, and the sea was rising and breaking at the harbour entrance...
Life-Boat Saturday
SUCH serious problems as the " Unem- ployed " and the stagnation and alleged decline of trade, added to the general unrest throughout Europe on account of the Russo-Japanese war, now happily at an end, one and all rendered the self...
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