LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Services In 1904
Lives saved.
Newbiggin, North Sunder- land, Port Isaac, Scarboro', Staithes, Stonehaven, Whitby —rendered assistance.
Frobfsher, steam trawler, of Yar- mouth, assisted to save vessel and 9 George...
Category: Services
Progress and Launch Out
Scarborough, Yorkshire On the afternoon of the 24th February several local fishing boats were at sea. Theweather got bad and all except the Launch Out and Progress returned to harbour. By 4 P.M. conditions were very bad, and a big sea was...
Peggy, If, and Billy Boy
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 1.30 P.M. on the 4th January, 1938, the coastguard reported that the local fishing boats Peggy, If, and Billy Boy, carrying seven men altogether, were making heavy weather three miles south of...
Lynburn
Aberdeen.—The local steam trawler Lynburn, which had previously broken adrift, had gone ashore in the Naviga- tion Channel at Aberdeen. In the early hours of the morning of the 26th of September, 1950, tugs were trying to refloat her; and at...
Isa Simpson
Gourdon, Kincardineshire. — At two o'clock in the afternoon of the 3rd of January, 1951, Johnshaven sent a message that the local motor fishing boat Isa Simpson was disabled by an engine breakdown off Johnshaven. At 2.10 the...
Grace Stuart
Girvan, Ayrshire.—At 3.15 in the afternoon, on the 19th of January, 1951, the coxswain saw the local motor fishing boat Grace Stuart approaching the har- bour. There was a heavy sea across the bar with a north-westerly breeze, and...
Fishing Boats
Wells, Norfolk.—About 10.0 on the morning of the 4th of July, 1951, a gale sprang up from the north-east and the sea became very rough. Nine local fishing boats were at sea, and it was thought advisable for the life- boat to stand by them....
Dennis
Flamborough, Yorkshire.—At 9.55 on the morning of the 22nd of September, 1954,the coxswain reported that the local fishing coble Dennis was still at sea and the weather was deteriorating. It was thought that she might be in danger making for...
Fishing Boats (6)
Filey, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 8th of December, 1954, the weather worsened while local fishing cobles were at sea, and at eleven o'clock the life-boat The Isa and Penryn Milsted was launched in a flooding tide with the bowman in...
Fishing Boats (1)
Bridlington, Yorkshire.—On the morn- ing of the 7th of February, 1955, the weather worsened while fourteen local fishing boats were at sea, and at ten o'clock the life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield II was launched, with an ex- coxswain...