LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Vessels (2)
THREE FISHING VESSELS ESCORTED IN GALE Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 10.50 on the morning of the 20th December, 1962, as the weather was rapidly deteriorating, the honorary secretary asked the harbour master how many fishing boats were still at...
Bluebell, of Wick
Stronsay, Orkneys - At 1.40 a.m. on 22nd June, 1967, the fishing vessel Bluebell of Wick was reported ashore on Seal Skerry, South of Gairsay. The lifeboat The John Gellanty Hyndman slipped her moorings at 2.10 in a moderate south westerly...
None (1)
Aith, Shetlands. At 10.20 a.m. on 1st December, 1965, at the request of the local medical officer of health, the lifeboat John and Frances Macfarlane was launched in a moderate north westerly breeze and in a rough sea to take a doctor and a...
Golden Hope
SEVERE At 9 a.m. on loth April, 1966, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that the m.f.v. Golden Hope was at sea and that conditions in the harbour approaches were very severe, with visibility almost nil. The life-boat Mary Ann...
Maid of Loughshinney
Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 8.30 on the morning of the 16th of November, 1955, the life-boat coxswain noticed a boat about seven miles to the east heading out to sea. She appeared to have stopped and was seen through a tele- scope to be...
Thomas L. Devlin
Anstruther, Fifeshire. At 9.20 on the evening of the 20th of December, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a trawler was ashore on the north side of May Island. At 9.35 the life-boat James and Ruby Jackson was launched...
Wakeful, Success and Provider
PROPELLER FOULED At 4.20 p.m. on 25th November, 1965, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Wakeful had partially fouled her propeller and was returning to harbour from the fishing...
Mrs. F. M. H. Coleman, M.B.E., J.P., of Clacton
MRS. FLORENCE MABEL HENRIETTA COLEJIAX, M.B.E., J.P., of Clacton, who died on the 25th of August, 1952, at the age of eighty, had been for thirty years a distinguished and most successful worker for the Life-boat...
Category: Obituaries
A Naval Trawler Saved
A vellum has also been awarded to Second-coxswain F. Upton, of Walmer, who, at great risk, went on board a naval trawler from the life-boat when the trawler was labouring in heavy seas close to the Goodwins. She fell over so far that the...
Category: Articles
White Heather
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.17 early on the morning of the 6th of August, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that the police had reported that shouts for help had been heard from a boat off the holiday camp south-west of the pier. At 2.22 the...