LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fertile (2)
Aith and Lerwick, Shetlands; and Stronsay, Orkneys. At 5.28 p.m. on Tuesday, i5th June, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the Lerwick life-boat station that a 46-foot motor fishing vessel bound for Lerwick from Kirkwall...
Moss Rose (1)
COBLE ESCORTED At 9.30 a.m. on 29th October, 1965, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that a coble which was five miles away might be in need of assistance as weather conditions were deteriorating. The lifeboat Friendly Forester...
None (2)
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides - At 7 p.m. on 26th March, 1966, the honorary secretary was asked by a local doctor if the life-boat could be used to convey an injured patient to South Uist for hospital treatment as no other suitable boat was...
Mona
At 2.19 a.m. on I3th July, 1966, a red flare had been reported about three miles offshore in an easterly direction. The lifeboat Edian Courtauld left her moorings at 2.45 in a fresh westerly wind and a choppy sea. It was one hour after low...
Fishing Boats (7)
OCT. 26TH. - EYEMOUTH, BERWICKSHIRE.
A whole N.E. by N. gale was blowing, with a very rough sea in Eyemouth Bay. Four local fishing boats were waiting to enter the port. The motor life-boat Frank and William Oates was...
Fishing Cobles
JANUARY 29TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
During the morning, while thirteen Filey fishing cobles were at sea, a strong N.E.
wind sprang up. All the regular life-boat crew were out fishing, but ex-coxswain R. C....
Georges Edouard
JANUARY 4TH. - EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX.
At 8.45 P.M. the coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore off the York Hotel, Eastbourne. A light N.E. wind was blowing, with a moderately rough sea. The motor life-boat Jane Holland...
The S.S. Baron Ruthven
FEBRUARY 4TH. - TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE.
At 12.30 A.M. a message was received from the Teesmouth coastguard that the S.S. Baron Ruthven, of Glasgow, was ashore on the North Gare, and that a tug was standing by. Half an hour...
Peace, of London
On the 28th September, at 3 A.M., a small vessel, which proved to be the barge Peace, of London, was ob- served to have anchored in heavy broken water off the Camber coast-guard station, near Rye. The Camber life-boat was quickly launched,...
Willowpool
DEC. 10TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK, CAISTER, NORFOLK, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 8.20 P.M. the coastguard reported that the steamer Willowpool, of Hartlepool,was sending out S.O.S. signals fourteen miles...