LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Cobles (1)
Nov. 3RD. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE. During the morning four motor fishing cobles were at sea. The weather was bad. Watch was kept, and at 11.40 A.M., as the conditions were then dangerous for the returning boats, the pulling and sailing life-boat...
Fishing Cobles (1)
.—Four of the fishing-cobles belonging to Flamborough were overtaken by a strong S.E. gale and heavy sea whilst out fishing on the 14th December. Richard Chad wick, the Coxswain of the Life-boat, was in.
one of the boats,...
Lifeboat Services (1)
Aberdeen. Grampian 54ft Amn ON 1050: July 3 D class: July 5 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: June 17, 18,26, July 7, 15 and 30 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: July 22 Aith, Shetland 52ft Arun ON 1100: July 7 Aldeburgh, Suffolk 37ft 6in Rather...
Category: Services
Das Wappen von Bremen (1)
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—On the 2nd June, 1938, the crew of seven of the German yacht Das Wappen von Bremen, were rescued by the life-boat.—Rewards: Vellum and monetary awards amounting to £20 10*. 2d., together with a letter to the Board...
Two Boats (1)
Padstow, and St. Ires, Cornwall.—At 7.45 in the evening of the 25th of Sept- ember, 1949, the Trevose Head coast- guard telephoned the Padstow life-boat authorities that a rowing boat with a crew of four was trying to get ashore in...
A Wellington Aeroplane (1)
SEARCHING FOR AIRMEN Margate, and Ramsgate, Kent. — Shortly after 7.30 on the night of the 20th of November, 1947, the R.A.F. at Manston reported to the coastguard that a Wellington aeroplane was down in the sea north-east of...
A Hunter Aircraft (1)
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 5.48 on the 7th of November, 1957, the coast- guard reported that a Hunter aircraft had crashed into the sea and that the pilot had baled out ten miles north of Lundy. The life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched at...
An R.A.F. Aeroplane (1)
Clovelly, Devonshire, and Padstow * No. 1, Cornwall.—19th October, 1939. A message was received that a R.A.F. aeroplane had come down in the sea and the Clovelly life-boat was launched at 10.20 P.M. to search between Hartland Point and...
Lifeboat Services (1)
Aberdeen, Grampian 54ft Am n ON 2050: Aprils D class: May 21 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: March 11, 25, April 25, May 23 (twice), 26 (twice) and 27 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: May 2 and 3 Aberystwyth, Dyfed C class: May 26 (twice)...
Category: Services
The S.S. Cairnmona (1)
SUNK IN TWENTY MINUTES.
_ _ Peterhead, and Aberdeen, Aberdeen- shire.—At 11.15 P.M. on the 30th October, 1939, a message was received at Peterhead from the coastguard that a vessel was sinking three miles east of Rattray...