LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Florence Mary
A fishing-dandy was seen, daring a break in a thick fog at 10 A.M. on the 16th June, stranded on the North Scroby Sand. A strong breeze was blowing at the time from the 8., and there was a rough sea. The No. 2 Life-boat Godsend proceeded to...
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St. Mary's, Scilly.—The motor lifeboat Cunard was launched at 3.50 P.M.
on the 26th July, as the Bishop Rock lighthouse was making flag and rocket signals, but, owing to the misty weather, the flags could not be read. A...
Messina
Cromarty.—On the afternoon of the 23rd December the local fishing boat Messina, with three men on board, was seen to be in a dangerous position off South Suter Point. She was trying to get back after lobster fishing, but could make no...
Provider
Flamborough, Yorkshire.—While the local fishing coble Provider was out fishing on the 25th of October, 1949, a south-easterly wind, increasing to gale force, made a very rough sea. The life-boat Howard D. was launched at eleven o'clock...
Black Maria
Fowey, Cornwall.—On the evening of the 16th of September, 1950, the yacht Black Maria, with no one on board, broke her moorings at Fowey. In a rough sea and a fresh south-westerly gale, she was swept up the harbour, striking the life-boat...
The Coningbeg Lightvessel
Kilmore, Co. Wexford.—About nine o'clock on the morning of the 6th of October, 1950, the Irish Lights Com- missioners asked that the life-boat should go to the Coningbeg Lightvessel to land a man whose wife was danger- ously ill. At 9.50...
Fishing Cobles
Newbiggin, Northumberland. — During the morning of the 31st of March, 1951, five local fishing cobles were at sea in bad weather and people were anxious for their safety. At 11.0 it was decided to launch the life-boat; and at 11.20 the...
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Galway Bay, Co. Galway.—On the morning of the 24th January there was a very urgent call from the neighbouring island of Inishere, the most southerly of the Aran Isles, for a doctor. The sea was very rough and the wind so strong that no boat...
Fishing Cobles (1)
Runswick, Yorkshire. — Four fishing cobles put to sea in moderate weather at 7 A.M. on the 31st December, 1937.
Later on, conditions got bad, and by 10.45 A.M. a moderate gale was blowing from the N.N E., with a rough...
Fishing Cobles (2)
Filey, Yorkshire.—During the morning of the 2nd January, 1938, the local fishing cobles were caught at sea by bad weather. Some quickly came in, but others were several miles off, and the pulling and sailing life-boat Thomas Masterman Hardy...