LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Holy Wath
At about 1.30 A.M. on the 28th October,- during a strong E.S.E. gale, signals of distress were exhibited on a vessel which was riding in the bay. The Life-boat Mary Isabella was launched in a very rough sea with the assistance of the...
Staithes
During a thick fog on the llth September signals of distress were seen in the direction of the Cowbar Steel. One of the cobles put off, but found that it was not pos- sible to approach the vessel which had stranded on the Steel. She returned...
Felicity and Victory
— The Motor Life-boat Stanhope Smart, which had gone to the Station in June, was called out, in a moderate southerly gale with a rough sea, and rain, at 11.40 A.M.
on the 3rd November, as the fishing boats Felicity and...
Try Again
On the 13th April the coble Try Again, returning from fishing in a strong breeze from S.E. and a rough sea, was in very great danger, and the Life-boat put off to assist her. She was the last boat of the fleet to return, and after the...
Catherine Henry
CRICCIETH.—At about 1 p.m. on the 18th June, the schooner Catherine Henry,of Aberystwyth, while going from Abersoch to Portmadoo, was overtaken by a strong N.W. to N.N.W. gale and a very rough sea, and was in a very dangerous position near...
Isabella
WICK.—The fishing-lugger Isabella, of Wick, while attempting to put to sea on the 26th February, the water being still rough after a S.W. gale, was struck by heavy sea and was driven up the river.
Both her anchors were...
Kells Bay
At 5.50 p.m. on 25th June, 1969, it was learnt that the fishing vessel Kells Bay was drifting half a mile off shore at Bull head. The life-boat Peter and Sarah Blake, on temporary duty at the station, slipped her moorings in a strong south...
A Dinghy (5)
PorfhdinJlaen, Caernarvonshire. At 7.30 on the evening of the 23rd of September, 1958, a message was re- ceived from the coastguard that a small dinghy was in difficulties north-east of Porthdinllaen Point. The life-boat Charles Henry...
Elaine
Moelfre, Anglesey. At 12.40 on the afternoon of the 15th of August, 1959, the coxswain saw a motor boat in difficulties two and a half miles north- west-by-west of Moelfre Island. At 12.45 the life-boat Watkin Williams was launched in a...
Otter
Falmouth, Cornwall. At 3.10 on the morning of the 8th of June, 1960, the dock police informed the honorary secretary that two officers had seen red flares being fired in Falmouth harbour.
At 3.45 the life-boat Crawford and...