LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Cobles
STAITHES, YORKSHIRE.—On the 12th September, the Life-boat Hannah Somerset went out to the assistance of several fishing cobles which had been overtaken by a sudden gale from the N., accompanied by a heavy sea, and were in great...
Fortunatus
At 10.15 A.M. on 20th October information was received from Whitby through the Coastguard that the fishing boat For- tunatus, of Whitby, had been warned not to attempt to enter Whitby Harbour on account of the N.E. gale blowing, and was...
Argo
GORLESTON.—Signal-guns having been fired by the light-vessels, the Life-boat Mark Lane put off at 6.35 A.M. on the 7th February, in a rough sea and a strong N. by E. breeze, and found the brigantine Argo, of Marstal, bound from Fowey for...
Helena
Newhaven, Sussex. At 7.10 p.m. on 2nd October, 1965, Shoreham coastguard told the motor mechanic that red flares had been sighted west of Newhaven harbour. The life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at 7.25, two and a hah0 hours after high...
Mary
FAULTY PUMP At 5.24 p.m. on 27th June, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares had been fired by a trawler two miles off Bury Holm in a southerly direction. The life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched at 5.37 in a...
L’Appel-de-Lemar
MAY 2ND. - FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.
During the evening the French fishing vessel L’Appel-de-Lemar, while on passage from Newlyn to Fleetwood, with a crew of five, grounded on St. Bernard’s Wharf about half a mile...
Joan and Mary
JULY 20TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE. In the early morning the motor fishing boat Joan and Mary had gone out with a crew of three. As by evening she had not returned and no news had been received of another boat which had gone out to look for her,...
An Aeroplane (26)
JULY 3lST. - DUNBAR, EAST LOTHIAN.
After an aeroplane had come down two airmen were reported in the sea, but no trace of them was found. - Rewards, £11 6s..
Marion
ISLE of ARRAN, N.B.—On the 13th July, at about 11.30 P.M., during a strongN.E. wind and moderate sea, the pilot smack Marion, while cruising between Lamlash and Ailsa Craig, had her jib carried away; she afterwards stranded on the Carlin...
Appledore
So many people walking up The Path in Appledore last summer stopped to enjoy the beautiful window boxes and hanging baskets of flowers in front of Peter Longridge's house that he decided to put a jar for collecting money for the RNLI in... - View image in PDF
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