LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Cobles
Whitby, Yorkshire.—After a sudden heavy squall about eight o'clock in the morning on the 17th of December, 1949, the coastguard and coxswain observed that a number of small fishing cobles were in danger of being swamped by the seas....
A Speed Boat (1)
Skegness, Lincolnshire - At 4.5 p.m.
on 9th November, 1969, it was learnt that a speedboat was firing red flares half a mile east of Skegness. At 4.30 the life-boat Charles Fred Grantham was launched in a fresh north...
Seven Times Alongside Listing Ship
On the evening of 9th November, 1969, the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston life-boat was manoeuvred seven times alongside a severely listingJDanish ship, a service for which Coxswain John Bryan has been awarded the R.N.L.I.'s bronze medal...
Category: Services
Southwards and Westwards
Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 12.37 on the afternoon of the 13th of November, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the vessel Drop- ford was towing the fishing vessel Southwards, which had engine trouble, towards Morecambe...
None (4)
Swanage, Dorset -At 5.2 p.m. on 26th March, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man had been seen at the base of the Old Harry rocks.
The life-boat R.L.P. launched at 5.14 in a gale force westerly...
Sea Lion
The Grimsby trawler Sea Lion, carrying a crew of nine, ran ashore at Dimlington early on the morning of the 2nd April. A gentle N.W. breeze was blowing, but there was a heavy swell on the beach. The pulling and sailing life-boat Docea...
Lighthouse Mission
FOR a difficult operation which involved taking an injured lighthouse keeper, who weighed 21 stone, off the Beachy Head lighthouse Coxswain Bassett, of Eastbourne, has been accorded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum.
Category: Services
Progress
Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 3.48 p.m. on 22nd January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Progress had broken down three to four miles northeast of Tynemouth Pier. The motor fishing vessel Contester...
A Dinghy
Troon, Ayrshire - At 11.5 a.m. on 14th March, 1970, the police informed the coxswain of the life-boat that a rubber dinghy with three people on board, which had put to sea the previous evening, had failed to return. The life-boat Connel...
H.M.S. Speedy
DECEMBER 18TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
A request was received from the medical officer of H.M.S. Speedy for the life-boat to go out to her for a man with scarlet fever.
At 1.15 in the afternoon the motor...