LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Accounts of Services by Life-boats
JANUARY.
Launches 50. Lives Rescued 35.
JAN. 2ND. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
Early in the morning a number of fishing boats went to sea. At about 8.30 A.M. a N.E. gale sprang up and the sea...
Category: Services
Rimae
KILDOHAN, ISLE OF ABBAN.—At 6 P.M.
on the 6th October, a vessel was seen flying the signal "I am sinking." The Life-boat Emily Dewar was promptly launched, and found the vessel was the barque Bimac, of Liverpool,...
Olden Times
Eyemouth, Berwickshire. — At 4.15 in the afternoon of the 27th of Decem- ber, 1951, the fishing vessel Dougals, which was in the harbour, reported by wireless that she had picked up a message from the steam trawler Olden Times, of North...
Fishing Cobles
Newbiggin, Northumberland. — At 10.35 on the morning of the 5th of April, 1956, the life-boat coxswain reported that the weather had deteriorated and that six fishing cobles were still at sea.
It was decided that the...
Rosemary, Hilda and Premier
Scarborough, Yorkshire. — On the morning of the 22nd of November, 1956.
the fishing cobles Rosemary, Hilda and Premier had put to sea. Shortly before ten o'clock the weather worsened, and as the fishing cobles were due...
Mac (1)
Rhyl, Flintshire, and Hoylake, Cheshire.— —At 3.2 in the morning of the 7th December, 1948, the Rhyl coastguard telephoned that a flare had been seen six miles north-east by north of the pier, and the motor life-boat The Gordon Warren was...
IRB LIFTED CLEAN FROM WATER
IRB LIFTED CLEAN FROM WATER Two members of the Southend-on-Sea IRB crew, Mr. Colin Sedgwick and Mr.
Robert Chalk, have both received letters of thanks signed by the Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E...
Category: Services
Success
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—About one o'clock on the afternoon of the 24th of November, 1955, the coastguard reported that the fishing boat Success, of Whitby, was about three miles to the north-east and making for Scar- borough, as Whitby...
A Boat (2)
SCALED THE CLIFFS At 4.40 p.m. on 8th September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small boat which had left Laxey at n a.m. was missing, with two adults and two children on board. There was a moderate sea with a...
A Boat (Fomer Naval Pinnace)
MAY 1ST. - ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE.
At eight in the evening the St. Abbs Head signal station telephoned that a boat was apparently stationary about ten miles westnorth- west of St. Abbs Head. The weather was fine, but as the...