LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane and H.M.S.. Patia
APRIL 28TH. - BOULMER, AND AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND. On the night of Sunday, 27th April, it was learned at Boulmer that a German aeroplane had attacked a naval vessel and that the aeroplane had been brought down in flames. The coxswain and...
William and Martha
Whitby, Yorkshire. At 8.50 a.m. on 13th November, 1965, conditions had become dangerous at the harbour bar and the fishing coble William and Martha was still at sea. The life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 9 o'clock in a moderate...
Oak Leaves
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 7.20 on the evening of the llth of November, 1959, the coxswain received a message from a Wexford fish merchant that the fishing boat Oak Leaves had not returned to Wexford. When last seen near Blackwater...
Geziena and Courage
Whltby, Yorkshire.—At 12.50 in the afternoon of the 4th of November, 1951, the coastguard reported that the motor ship Geziena, of Rotterdam, was lying off Whitby in need of a pilot. As the weather was too bad for a shore-boat to put out,...
Concerto and Martez
Broken rudder THE YACHT Concerto, in difficulties ten miles north of Round Island, was reported to the honorary secretary of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, lifeboat station by Falmouth Coastguard at 1618 on Tuesday June 22, 1982. Maroons...
Awards to Coxswains and Members of Life-Boat Crews
The following coxswains and members of life-boat crews have been awarded certificates of service, and in addition those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations have been awarded an annuity or a retirement allowance and a...
Category: Awards
Four Fishing Cobles and Margaret and James
AIR AND SEA SEARCH FOR COBLE Filey, Yorkshire. At 9.20 on the morning of the 29th May, 1962, when several fishing cobles were at sea, the honorary secretary asked the coastguard about the weather prospects as conditions seemed to be growing...
The Cross Sand Lightvessel
Caister, Norfolk.—At 10.30 on the morning of the 2nd of April, 1956, the local Superintendent of Trinity House rang up to say that a man on the Cross Sand lightvessel had been badly injured. He asked if the life-boat would take him ashore,...
Don
LOBSTER FISHERS ADRIFT ALL NIGHT St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At 6.40 on the morning .of the 14th of August, 1947, information was received that two men, who had left Solva in their motor fishing boat Don to attend to their lobster pots,...
Polly Johnson and Scarron
Humber, Yorkshire. — During the afternoon of the 27th August the Mablethorpe coastguard reported,through the Spurn Point signal station, that two trawlers had been in collision ten miles north of the Humber and that one of them was sinking....