LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Baden Powell
Several cobles belonging to Filey were overtaken by bad weather when at sea on the 1st May.
The wind suddenly increased to a strong northerly gale and the boats which were to the north of the " Brig " were able to...
Sceptre
— On the morning of the 12th December a very heavy sea got up, and the local motor fishing boat Sceptre, which was at sea, was in danger of being swamped. The motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched at 10.5 P.M., met her about one...
Ripple
Salcombe, Devon.—At 8.1 on the even- ing of the 14th of July, 1957, the Hope Cove coastguard telephoned that a yacht needed help half a mile south- east of Prawle Point. At 8.10 the life-boat Samuel and Marie Parkhouse put out in a smooth...
Nancy
Bridlington, Yorkshire. On the morning of the 6th of January, 1958, the local small open fishing coble Nancy was at sea in deteriorating weather. At 11.35 the life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield II was launched with the second...
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Galway Bay. At 11.45 on the morn- ing of the 1st of May, 1958, the local doctor asked if the life-boat would take a patient in urgent need of hospital treatment to the mainland. After embarking the sick woman, the life- boat Mabel Marion...
French Life-Boat Disaster
THE life-boat Vice-Amiral Schwerer stationed at Etel in France capsized near the entrance to Lorient harbour on the 3rd of October, 1958. Her whole crew of five, consisting of the coxswain, mechanic, radio-operator and two other members of...
Category: Articles
Silver Line
Flamborough, Yorkshire.—-At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 20th of December, 1954, the coxswain reported that the local fishing coble Silver Line was still at sea in worsening weather.
At 3.10 the life-boat...
£137 from a Picture Catalogue
AN exhibition of Dutch and Flemish pictures was held in his Bond Street gallery, in May and June, by Mr.
Eugene Slatter, and he very kindly gave the money from the sale of the catalogues to the Institution. The exhibition...
Category: Donations
Frigate Bird
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire—At 10.47 in the morning of the 18th of February,1952, the coastguard telephoned that the local fishing boat Frigate Bird had broken down one and a half miles to the southward and at 11.12 the lifeboat Jeanie Speirs...
Sea Fisher
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 6.35 on the evening of the 2nd of October, 1960, the stageman informed the honorary secretary that a boat was drifting out of control up river with the tide. The life-boat Norman B.Corlett put out at seven...