LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Frigate Bird
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire—At 10.47 in the morning of the 18th of February,1952, the coastguard telephoned that the local fishing boat Frigate Bird had broken down one and a half miles to the southward and at 11.12 the lifeboat Jeanie Speirs...
Sea Fisher
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 6.35 on the evening of the 2nd of October, 1960, the stageman informed the honorary secretary that a boat was drifting out of control up river with the tide. The life-boat Norman B.Corlett put out at seven...
A Sailing Dinghy (3)
West Mersea, Essex. At approx.
8.10 p.m. on 22nd May, 1965, the honorary secretary was informed that a sailingdinghy had capsized half a mile southeast of the station. At. 8.12 the inshore rescue boat launched in a gentle...
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THREE RESCUED Seaham, Co. Durham. At 6.42 p.m.
on 29th July, 1965, three men were stranded on North pier, unable to get back because of the waves breaking over the pier. At 7.19 the life-boat The Will and Fanny Kirby was...
Membership News
1993 and all that! The London Boat Show at Earls Court this January marks the 25th anniversary of the launch of the Yachtsmen's Lifeboat Supporters Association - the organisation which evolved and expanded into the membership scheme as...
Category: Articles
Safeguard Security
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Category: Advertisement
Friends, Provide Us and Serene
Cobles escorted in gale THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Flamborough lifeboat station was told by HM Coastguard at 1010 on Saturday October 15, 1983, that a number of Bridlington based open angling cobles were fishing north of Flamborough Head in...
Otto N. Miller and Nora
TANKER ON FIRE Eastbourne and Newhaven, Sussex.
At 8.5 a.m. on 2yth March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretaries at Eastbourne and Newhaven lifeboat stations that the Liberian tanker Otto N. Miller of...
Familiens Haab
MONTBOSE.—At 10.5 A.M., on the 26th November, the No. 2 Life-boat The Roman Governor of Caer Hun was launched to the assistance of the schooner Familiens Saab, of Frederikshald, laden with pit props, which was driven ashore during a strong...
A Fishing Coble
On the 31st August a fishing coble of South Shields had been out salmon fishing, when the N.E. wind freshened to the force of a strong breeze and the sea became heavy. In attempting to return to port the oars were broken and the two men in...