LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Converted Yacht Mary Ann
St. Helier, Jersey. At 3.50 on the morning of the 20th of July, 1958, the honorary secretary received a message that a man fishing at Plemont had heard shouts and seen white flares, and that a small boat appeared to be in difficulty close to...
Past and Present
50 Years Ago The following article appeared in the December, 1936, issue of THE LIFEBOAT: The Last of the Life-boat Horses.
WHEN the motor life-boat Royal Silver Jubilee, 1910-1935, reached Wells, Norfolk, on llth February...
Category: Articles
Income and Expenditure for 1938
Expenditure.
Life-boats:— £ s. d.
New Life-boats for the following stations:—On account— Aberdeen, Appledore, Arklow, Barmouth, Barry Dock, Bembridge, Cadgwith, Caister, Cloughey, Dun Laoghaire,...
Category: Accounts
Books
• Now that This is Rough Weather Sailing has been written by Erroll Bruce, everyone thinking of going offshore, cruising or racing, should read it. Those whose interest is purely in the work of the rescue services should read it, too, for it...
Category: Articles
Fishing Cobles (2)
— The fishing cobles belonging to Filey had, as usual, gone off for the fishing in the early morning of the 22nd February. The wind increased, until about 10.30 A.M.
it was blowing a gale, and six of the cobles were to the...
The S.S. Boston
The Life-boat Hollon the Third was launched at 7.30 P.M. on the 22nd December in response to a message from the Coastguard stating that a steamer was off the Brigg, down at the head .and apparently lowering her boats. A strong N.E. by E....
Margaret and James
Filey, Yorkshire. On the 2nd of November, 1960, the fishing coble Margaret and James was at sea in a south-south-westerly gale. The weather was cloudy with fierce squalls, and the sea was rough. As the weather was be- coming worse it was...
Admiral Mitford and Thomas & Mary
On the 12th Feb. two of the Filey fishing vessels, the Admiral Mitford, and the Thomas and Mary, which were in the Bay, sent their small boats ashore with fish, leaving only a man and a boy in each yawl. While the men were occupied on the...
Joan and Mary, Dorothy Rose, and Matthew and Edward
NOVEMBER 4TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
The local fishing cobles Joan and Mary, Dorothy Rose, and Matthew and Edward had gone out in bad weather, and by 11.45 A.M.
it had got so much worse, with a fresh N.E....
Naming of the Rnlb Newsbuoy
Saturday September 29, 1984 ON A BRIGHT, early autumn day, one of the RNLI's newest lifeboats lay afloat, bedecked and sparkling, awaiting her naming ceremony. An ordinary enough scene for those familiar with such occasions but this...
Category: Inaugurations