LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Prosperity, Progress, Endeavour, Flying Spray and Success
Whitby, Yorkshire.—Early on the morning of the 15th April the local motor fishing boats Prosperity, Progress, Endeavour, Flying Spray and Success put out to fish. A nasty sea was running. Later on it grew worse and broke heavily on the bar....
Brit
Salcombe, Devon.—At 10.0 on the night of the 6th August, 1952, the Hope Cove coastguard telephoned that a red flare had been seen one mile south-south-east of Bolt Head. At 10.10 the life-boat Samuel and Marie Parkhouse left her moorings,...
Joanna
Weymouth, Dorset. — At 4.3 on the afternoon of the 5th of September, 1952, news was sent by the Portland coastguard through the Wyke Regis coastguard that a yacht was burning red flares about five miles south-south- west of Portland Bill. A...
The S.S. Ribblebank
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 10.30 in the morning on the 10th of February, 1950, the harbour authorities reportedthat the s.s. Ribblebank, of Liverpool, was on the Lighthouse bank. Later she was reported to be loaded with 400 tons of calcium...
Silver Star
THREE MEN RESCUED Filey, Yorkshire. At 1.47 p.m. on I3th October, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a motor vessel had broken down four and a half miles off Gristhorpe and had fired three distress flares. The life-boat...
Tarbaby
Aldeburgh, Suffolk. At 7.49 a.m. on 25th August, 1965, the honorary secretary was told by the coastguard that a German ship had reported the auxiliary yacht Tarbaby was in distress fifteen miles north-east of the Sunk...
Pearl
EXHAUSTED BY ROWING Whitehills, Banffshire. At 1.55 a.m.
on 3rd August, 1965, the police reported that a flare had been seen off Banff. The life-boat Helen Wycherley launched at 2.15 in a moderate north-easterly breeze and...
The Auxiliary Barge Ethel
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 1.45 on the morning of the 3rd of July, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen four miles south-south-east of the look- out. At 2.10 the life-boat Edian Cour- tauld...
Fishing Vessels
Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 8.30 on the morning of the 13th of November, 1959, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that some local motor fishing vessels, which were out in a full south- south-easterly gale and a very rough sea, would be...
A Norwegian Centenary
THE celebration of the centenary of the establishment of the first life-boat on the Norwegian coast took place at Stavanger on 22nd August, 1954. It was held at the time of the Annual General Meeting of the Norwegian Life-boat Society and...
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