LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Rubber Dinghy (1)
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 3.25 in the afternoon of the 31st of July, 1949, information was received through the coastguard at Easington that a rubber dinghy was drifting half a mile off Easington, and the life-boat City of Bradford //was...
Jaqueline Roberta
Dungeness, Kent. At 11.50 on the morning of the 12th of February, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that the engine of the fishing boat Jaque- line Roberta had broken down three miles south-west of Dungeness and that she had asked...
Inaugural Ceremony of the Lerwick Motor Life-Boat
IN 1930 the Institution established a Life-boat Station at Lerwick in the Shetlands, and placed there a 51-feet Barnett (Stromness) Motor Life-boat, the largest and most powerful type which it is now building. (A full description of this...
Category: Inaugurations
The Tank Steamer Pass of Ballater
Peel, and Port Erin, Isle of Man.—On the night of the 1st December, 1938, information from the coastguard was received at both life-boat stations that the tank steamer Pass of Ballater, of London, was in distress and needed tugs. A moderate...
A Motor Boat
Open boat swamped TYNE COASTGUARD reported to the honorary secretary of Sunderland lifeboat station at 1659 on Saturday September 10, 1983, that a small boat was in difficulties a quarter of a mile inside the south pier. It was a squally...
Nomad
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 11.53 on the afternoon of the 15th of August, 1960, the honorary secretary received a message through the British Railways wireless station asking for the life-boat to go to the help of a yacht which was sinking...
Sallie
At 6 A.M. on the 31st January the fishing cobles put to sea to haul their lines, and at 9 A.M.
the wind and sea increased. Twenty- one of the cobles got into safety, but the coble Sallie was in great danger when she was...
Annie Ritchie
SAFELY TO ABERDEEN At 3.35 p.m. on loth March, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Annie Ritchie of Fraserburgh had broken down about three miles east by north of the Belhelvie coastguard...
Fishing Boats
Arranmore, Co. Donegal. At 8.50 on the evening of the 13th of August, 1959, the honorary secretary was informed that the local fishing fleet were in difficulties in an easterly gale and a very rough sea. Ten minutes later the life- boat...
Saint Kentigern
Campbeltown, Argyllshire. — About 11.25 on the night of the 10th of March, 1952, a life-boatman reported that he had heard a wireless message from the motor vessel Saint Kentigern, of Glasgow, laden with coal with a crew of eight. She had...