LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Success
Whitby, Yorkshire. On the morning of the 7th of March, 1958, the local motor fishing vessel Success was at the fishing grounds. During the day the weather became very bad, and at 2.25 in the afternoon the life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was...
A Small Motor Boat
Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.— At 11.33 in the morning of the 17th of September, 1948, the coastguard tele- phoned that a small motor boat with two men on board was drifting out to sea, and the motor life-boat J and W was launched at...
John Wesley
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— At 10.2 in the morning of the 14th of March, 1949, the Seahouses coastguard reported a man on a fishing boat wav- ing a flag, and at 10.15 the life-boat W.R.A. was launched, manned by her coxswain-and a...
A Fishing Boat (1)
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 3.33 in the afternoon of the 23rd of April, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a local fishing boat, with a crew of two, had capsized one mile south of Sizewell, and at 3.50 the No. 1 life-boat, Abdy Beauclerk,...
The Sailing Boat Brigand
Weymouth, Dorsetshire.—At six o'clock in the evening of the 15th of September, 1949, a boat owner reported that his sailing boat Brigand was missing with a man and a woman on board. The life-boat William and Clara Ryland was launched at...
Rosaline
Buckie, Banffshire. At 7.25 on the evening of the 19th of March, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small vessel aground on the West Muck rocks, three quarters of a mile from Buckie harbour, was burning flares....
Mr. Stanhope Bone
Mr. Stanhope Bone, who died on the 30th of October, 1959, at the age of 79, was the Institution's Surveyor of Life- boats from 1929 to 1940. He first joined the Institution's surveying staff in 1912 and later served as R.A.S.L. at...
Category: Obituaries
MacCoy
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 5.45 in the evening of the 21st of June, 1950, the Porthscatho coastguard telephoned that the local motor pleasure boat MacCoy needed help. A quarter of an hour later the life-boat John and Mary Meiklam of Gladswood,...
Roma II
Dungeness, Kent.—At 9.40 on the night of the 10th of August, 1950, the Lade coastguard reported a small boat in distress off Broome Hill, Camber • Sands. Ten minutes later the life- boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched in a calm sea,...
A Fishing Coble
CREW TAKEN OFF FISHING COBLE Seaham, Co. Durham. At 8.11 on the morning of the 20th April, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that red flares had been seen two and a half miles north of Seaham. The life-boat George Elmy was launched...