LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Cobles (2)
Several of the fishing cobles were overtaken by a heavy northerly wind and sea on the 18th July and were unable to make harbour. As the weather continued very bad the whole of the next day it was considered advisable to send the Life-boat to...
Hawksdale
MARGATE AND CLACTON-ON-SEA.—On the morning of the 26th January, while a strong gale was blowing from N.N.E.
accompanied by a heavy sea, the Margate boatmen observed a large vessel apparently in dangerously close proximity...
Two Fishing Boats
PORT ERIN, ISLE OF MAN.—On the 14th September the William Sugden Life-boat was despatched to the assistance of two fishing-boats which had been overtaken when on the lee side of Calf Island by a gale from the north-west and a heavy sea,...
Nancy
ESCORTED FOUR At 1.15 p.m. on i6th September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the small fishing coble Nancy was off Flamborough hauling her lobsterpots.
The wind at this time was blowing a near gale...
Andradite
Barra Island, Hebrides.—At 3.30 on the morning of the 7th of March, 1957, a message was received from the Storno- way coastguard that the steam trawler Andradite, of Fleetwood, was ashore near Curachan Rock. The life-boat Lloyds put out at...
Burthon
At 9 A.M. on the 14th November, the same Life-boat proceeded, in fow of a steam-tug, to the assistance of the Norwegian barque Burthon, which had gone on the Holme Sand. On reaching the vessel she was found to be...
Quickstep
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At two in the afternoon of the 4th of Novem- ber, 1951, the Foreland coastguard telephoned that a small sailing boat making for Bembridge was in distress off Seaview and at 2.15 the life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched...
Acting Coxswain:
Acting coxswain: they mav look the part but none of these men have ever taken a lifeboat to sea. They are, in fact, some of the cast from the recent BBC television plav 'Run for the Lifeboat', about a fictional lifeboat community in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Adventure, of Harwick
On the night of the 3rd November, the smack Adventure, of Harwich, ran ashore on the North Sand, near Yarmouth. The Institution's smaller life- boat at that place was quickly launched through a high surf, and succeeded in taking off her...
Janet
NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND. — At 12.80 A.M. on the 13th December, signals of distress having been shown by the brig Janet, of Peterhead, which had stranded about three hundred yards N. of Bing Head, the Life-boat Robert and Susan was launched...