LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Six Fishing Cobles
On the 6th December a strong gale of wind, accompanied by a heavy sea, came on suddenly, and six of the fishing- l cobles belonging to the port, each con- taining 3 men, were overtaken by the storm. On their perilous pgpition being observed,...
St. Ives Disaster Fund
SINCE the Mayor of St. Ives's fund for the dependents of the life-boatmen who lost their lives when the life-boat was wrecked on 23rd January last, was closed at the sum of £10,500, a gift of £1,670 9s. 7d. has come from South...
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King Edgar
The Humber, Yorkshire.—Just after 9 P.M. on the 14th February, 1938, the life-boatman on watch reported a large steamer aground on the Inner Binks. The sea was rough, with an E.N.E. wind and snow squalls. At 9.30 P.M. the motor life-boat...
Fagerheim
Cullercoats, Northumberland.—During foggy weather on the morning of the llth August, 1938, the Norwegian steamer Fagerheim, of Tons berg, ran ashore, in a smooth sea, south of Briardene. Information was given by the coastguard, and at 10.40...
An Aircraft
Dungeness, Kent. At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 24th of October, 1958, the coastguard at Lade informed the honorary secretary that wreckage of an aircraft had been seen four miles south of Varne lightvessel. At 12.50 the life- boat Charles...
A Canoe
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 12.52 on the afternoon of the 10th of April, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man was adrift and in difficulties in a canoe off Yarmouth beach, approxi- mately one mile...
Susan Ann
Appledore, Devon.—At 8.30 on the evening of the llth of July, 1953, the second coxswain told the coxswain that he had seen the yacht Susan Ann, of Fremington, with a crew of four, make distress signals. The Susan Ann was off Crow Rocks near...
Fishing Boats
Arbroath, Angus.—At six o'clock on the morning of the 13th of August, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the fishing fleet was returning to harbour and that the conditions at the bar were dangerous. The life-boat Tine Duke of...
Teal
Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 9.15 on the night of the 4th of September, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that a smallsailing boat was drifting off Rhos- colyn with two youths aboard. At 9.31 the life-boat St. Cybi (Civil Service No. 9) was launched...
Brigand
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—The life- boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunnwent to Brighton on the morning of the 31st of July, 1954, for a special trip for publicity purposes. About 12.15 a speed boat broke down three hundred yards west of...