LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Motor Fishing Coble Zephyr
DECEMBER 23RD. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At about 10.10 A.M. the coastguard telephoned that the local motor fishing coble Zephyr, with a crew of three, was flying distress signals about one and a half milesN.E. of Whitby Rock...
Success, Venus and Provider
APRIL 19TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
Early in the morning five fishing boats left to lift their crab pots. A N.E. wind of gale force got up with a rough sea and heavy rain, and two of the boats returned. As the weather grew...
The Armed Trawler Dungeness
NOVEMBER 15-25TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At 3.25 A.M. a message was received from the Haisboro’ coastguard that a trawler was ashore near the Haisboro’ Gap. A light southerly breeze was blowing and there was a heavy ground...
Fishing Boats (5)
DECEMBER 1ST. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
While the local fishing cobles were out, wind and sea increased, and some of the boats returned, but five stayed out. By 1 P.M. a strong N.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea, and at 1.30...
The Life-Boat of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
Fig. i.
Body Plan. Midship Section.
The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1...
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Star of Hope
WHITBY.—At 11.45 A.M. on the 6th December, during a strong gale from the E.N.E. and a heavy sea, with snow, the brig Star of Hope, of and for Newcastle from Dieppe, in ballast, became embayed between Whitby and Upgang Rocks. She then ran for...
Lifeboat Services March April and May 1990
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Arun ON 1050: March 1 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: April 19. May 4, 5 and 11 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: April 10 Aberystwyth, Dyfed C class: March 28. April 7. May 7. 19 and 20 (twice) Aldeburgh. Suffolk...
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January
JANUARY Launches 63 Lives rescued 100 JANUARY 2ND. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 12.10 in the afternoon the naval control told the coxswain that two ships had been in collision between No. 1 and No. 2 Sea Reach Buoys. There was a thick...
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Life-Boat Services Round the Coasts
MARCH No. 1 Life-boat Area Wick, Caithness - At 8.52 p.m. on 27th March, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a trawler had grounded hard and fast on the Louther Skerries. At 9.10 the life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was...
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Lifeboat Services June and July 1985
Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic21: June 8, July 5, 14. 15 and 29 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: July 14, 15, 17, 20 (twice) and 22 Aberystwyth, Dyfed C class inflatable: June 27,29, 30, July 4,6.
14 (twice) and 21 Aith,...
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