LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fame
APPLEDORE.—On the 2nd March a message by telephone was received stating that a, vessel was stranded on Baggy Leap. A moderate breeze was then blowing from N.N.E., the sea was smooth and the weather fine and cold.
At about...
Arne
Swanage, Dorset-At 4.55 p.m. on 31st May, 1968, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy was in difficulties three miles south of Dancing Ledge. At 5.3 the life-boat R.L.P. was launched and at 5.27 she reached the...
A Fishing Coble
STAITHES, YORKSHIRE.—On the 29th January a gale from N.N.W. sprung up, accompanied by a rough sea, and the cobles which had gone out fishing returned home. One of the boats, however, had not come in, and as it was evident she would encounter...
Equestrian, of Port Gordon
On the morning of the 16th March the same large Life-boat went off, in reply to signals of distress shown by the ketch Equestrian, of Port Gordon, and found that she had five feet of water in her. It was blowing heavily at the time from the...
Khedive
PALUNO, NORFOLK.—At 11 o'clock on the morning of the, 21st July, during squally weather and a heavy eea, a barque was observed aground on the Hasborough Sand. The No. 2 Life-boat, the British Workman, was launched and proceeded to the...
Lorn
HOLYHEAD.—On the 4th of April, 1886, at midnight, the schooner Lorn, of Lancaster, bound from Wicklow for Liverpool, showing signals of distress during a moderate gale from the S.W., the Thomas Fielden Life-boat put off to her assistance.<...
Lord Ridley
The steam trawler Lord Ridley, of Blyth, when homeward bound on the 7th July, stranded to the north of Newbiggin Point in a very thick fog, and the Life- boat Ada Lewis was launched. She found the vessel lying in a very dangerous position,...
St Bridget
At 6.30 P.M. on the 18th May the fishing-boat St. Bridget, of Ballinagoul, whilst returning from Dungarvan, ran on to the rocks near Ballinacourty Light- house, in a squall of rain. As the four men on board were in danger, the Life- boat...
Finlande
DECEMBER 18TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 7.20 in the evening the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore on the North Head at the harbour entrance. A light south-west wind was blowing, with a ground swell....
Bread Winner and Coronation Queen
COXSWAIN'S COBLE ESCORTED INTO HARBOUR Runswick, Yorkshire. At 11.49 on the morning of the 18th January, 1963, three fishing cobles were at sea in deteriorating weather and some concern was felt for their safety when they would enter...