LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Cobles
NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND.—The Life-boat Robert and Susan was launched on the 26th March to the assistance of some of the local fishing cobles, in consequence of the southerly wind suddenly increasing to a gale, and endangering the return of...
Honor
During very thick weather on the 3rd October the steam drifter Honor, which was being employed as a mine-sweeper, ran on to the rocks and made signals for assistance. In response the Life-boat John Anthony was launched, and stood by the...
Magnificat
CATAMARAN DISMASTED Moelfre, Anglesey. At 1.25 p.m. on 26th June, 1965, the coxswain sighted a catamaran being dismasted two miles east of Moelfre Island. The coastguard confirmed that the catamaran Magnificat was in difficulties and the...
Rosemary, Hilda II, Betty Sheader and Premier
COBLES ESCORTED AS GALE SPRINGS UP Scarborough, Yorkshire. On the 18th January, 1963, the weather deteriorated rapidly, and as several local fishing boats were at sea the honorary secretary gave permission for the life-boat to be launched....
Fishing Boats
Girvan, Ayrshire.-—-On the morning of 8th March, 1939, a strong W.N.W.
wind was blowing, with a rough sea, and the fresh water from the flooded river Girvan was making the harbour bar extremely dangerous. Five fishing boats...
J.A.P.
Lowestoft, Suffolk.-—At nine o'clock on the night of the 1st of January, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a trawler appeared to be aground on Newcombe Sands, and the life-boat Michael Stephens was launched at...
A Yacht and a Dinghy
YACHT'S CREW TAKE TO DINGHY New Brighton, Cheshire. At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 9th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had foundered off Harrison drive and that her crew had taken to a...
A Helicopter
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 11.53 on the morning of the 27th of July, 1960, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that a helicopter had been seen to crash half a mile east of Gorleston coastguard look- out. The...
Venture
Dover, Kent.—At 7.15 on the evening of the 16th of February, 1957, the Sandgate coastguard telephoned that the motor boat Venture, of Folkestone, with one man aboard, was overdue from a fishing trip off Shakespeare...
Jane Ann
On the 14th May, at about 11 P.M., signals of distress were shown from a vessel in Carnarvon Bay, apparently at a distance of seven or eight miles from Porthdinllaen. The wind was blowing a strong gale from the N.N.E., and a heavy sea was...