ON THIS DAY......
NEWBIGGIN LIFEBOAT STATION SERVICES
RENDERED OVER THE LAST 162 YEARS DURING
THE MONTH OF JANUARY
SERVICES SHOWN BOLD AND UNDERLINED WERE AWARDED SPECIAL RECOGNITION
1ST - 1925 -SEVEN NEWBIGGIN COBLES / 1927 - MOTOR SCHOONER ‘PRIMA’ OF HAMBURG /
2006 – PERSON IN A DISTRESSED STATE
2nd 3rd 4th - 1957 -FISHING BOAT ‘TROJAN STAR’
5th - 1861 - COBLES / 1943 - COBLE ‘HUMILITY’ OF NEWBIGGIN
6th – 2010 – INCIDENT ON THE CLIFFS
7th - 1854 - ‘EMBLA’
8th - 1909 - SEVEN NEWBIGGIN COBLES / 1946 - EIGHT NEWBIGGIN COBLES
9th - 1859 - SCHOONER ‘BETSY’ OF SUNDERLAND / 1889 - ‘LADY KATHERINE’ OF SUNDERLAND / 1988
- FISHING BOAT ‘ELLEN’
10th 1864 - BARQUE ‘KING OSCAR’ OF NORWAY (and also on 11th) /
1894 - DANISH BRIGANTINE ‘VIDELE’/ 1991 - FISHING BOAT ‘LADY GWEN’
11th- 1886 - COBLE / 1894 - BARQUE ‘AGEROSN’ OF NORWAY / 1935 - COBLE
12th - 1899 -TWO NEWBIGGIN COBLES
13th - 1965 - NEWBIGGIN COBLES ‘MARY ROBINSON’ AND ‘ EVENTIDE’
14th - 1890 - THIRTY TWO NEWBIGGIN COBLES
15th - 1936 - STEAM TRAWLER OF NORTH SHIELDS
16th - 1908 - FIFTEEN NEWBIGGIN COBLES / 1916 -FIVE NEWBIGGIN COBLES
17th 18th - 1917 - TWELVE NEWBIGGIN COBLES / 1924 - STEAMSHIP ‘VIELAND’ OF ROTTERDAM /
1933 - SEVEN NEWBIGGIN COBLES / 2006 – COBLE ANNE OF SEATON SLUICE
19th - 1860 - BARQUE ‘ALICE GILL’ OF BANFF / 1919 - S.S. ‘FLANDRIER’ OF ANTWERP
20th - 1953 - COBLE
21st - 1939 - S.S. ‘FERRYHILL’ OF ABERDEEN
22nd - 1934 -SEVEN NEWBIGGIN COBLES
23rd - 1884 - COBLES / 1986 - COBLE ‘CHILDREN’S PRIDE’ OF NEWBIGGIN
24th - 1938 - THIRTEEN NEWBIGGIN COBLES
25th - 1885 - SCREW STEAMER ‘JOHAN SVIEDROP’ / 1980 - COBLE ‘MIZPAH’ OF BLYTH / 1994 - COBLES
26th - 1927 - NEWBIGGIN’S FISHING FLEET / 1939 - REPORT OF AN EXPLOSION /
1939 - REPORT OF FLARES / 1987 - TWO NEWBIGGIN COBLES
27th - 1888 - COBLES
28th - 1980 - COBLE ‘ENTERPRISE’ OF NEWBIGGIN
29th 30th - 1936 - THREE NEWBIGGIN COBLES / 1948 -EIGHT NEWBIGGIN COBLES /
1988 - FISHING BOAT ‘ELLEN’
31th - 1975 - CAPSIZED ROWING BOAT / 2010 – PERSON IN DISTRESSED STATE
ON THIS DAY......
NEWBIGGIN LIFEBOAT STATION SERVICES
RENDERED OVER THE LAST 162 YEARS DURING
THE MONTH OF
FEBRUARY
SERVICES SHOWN BOLD AND UNDERLINED WERE AWARDED SPECIAL RECOGNITION
1st - 1953 - S.S. ‘LINDEAN’ / 2010 – ANGLERS CUT OFF BY THE TIDE
2nd - 1885 - COBLES / 1922 - ELEVEN NEWBIGGIN COBLES
3rd - 1892 - COBLES / 1936 - THIRTEEN NEWBIGGIN COBLES / 1994 - COBLE / 1995 - COBLE
4th - 1931 - STEAM TRAWLER ‘BEN ROY’ OF NORTH SHIELDS / 1940 - MOTOR VESSEL
‘EMINENT’ OF ANTWERP (two launches to this casualty)
5th 6th 7th - 1982 - CONVERTED SHIP’S LIFEBOAT ‘GILLIMOT’
8th - 1875 - S.S. ‘SHOTTON’ OF WEST HARTLEPOOL /
1897 - STEAM TRAWLER ‘JOHN SMART’ OF NORTH SHIELDS
9th 10th - 1928 - NEWBIGGIN FISHING FLEET / 1929 - S.S. ‘SCHELDERSTROOM’ OF GHENT /
1940 - S.S. ‘YEWGLEN’ OF GLASGOW / 1995 - COBLES
11th - 1940 - S.S. ‘YEWGLEN’ OF GLASGOW
12th - 1995 - COBLE
13th - 1915 - COBLE ‘THE SEA FLOWER’ OF NEWBIGGIN
14th - 1888 - COBLE ‘RELIANCE’ OF NEWBIGGIN / 1893 - SEVENTEEN NEWBIGGIN COBLES
15th - 1889 - COBLES
16th 17th 18th - 1859 - SUNDERLAND PILOT BOAT / 1989 – COBLE / 2006 – OPEN KYAK
19th - 1951 - THREE NEWBIGGIN COBLES
20th – 1999 - COBLE ‘MARGARET LISLE’ OF NEWBIGGIN
21st - 1896 - TWO NEWBIGGIN COBLES / 1911 - COBLES / 1974 - REPORT OF RED FLARES /
1990 – COBLES/ 2001 – JET SKI / 2012 – FISHING BOAT
22nd - 1872 - BRIGATINE ‘TAVORISH’ OF LIVERPOOL / 1884 - BARQUE ‘LEONAR’ OF
GERMANY / 1914 - SAILING SHIP ‘ARCTIC STREAM’ OF GLASGOW /
1977 - REPORT OF RED FLARES / 2009 – SMALL CABIN BOAT
23rd - 1905 - COBLES
24th – 2004 – PERSONS STUCK ON BREAKWATER
25th - 1906 - BARQUE ‘MARTHA REUX’ (two launches to this casualty)
26th - 1944 - COBLES / 1996 - MEDICAL EVACUATION
27th - 2002 - LANDED PERSON
28th - 1918 - COBLES
ON TH IS DAY......
NEWBIGGIN LIFEBOAT STATION SERVICES
RENDERED OVER THE LAST 162 YEARS DURING
THE MONTH OF MARCH
SERVICES SHOWN BOLD AND UNDERLINED WERE AWARDED SPECIAL RECOGNOTION
1st - 1893 -TWO NEWBIGGIN COBLES / 2010 – MISSING FISHERMAN
2nd - 1992 - COBLE ‘LILY OF THE VALLEY’ OF NEWBIGGIN
3rd - 1906 - COBLE ‘ROYAL’ OF NEWBIGGIN
4th - 1897 – COBLE / 2008 – MISSING FISHERMAN / 2010 - COBLE ‘THREE SISTERS R’
5th - 1899 - UNKNOWN STEAM SHIP / 1977 - COBLE ‘NEW VENTURE’ OF NEWBIGGIN /
1990 - COBLE ‘ENTERPRISE’ OF NEWBIGGIN
6th - 1990 - COBLE ‘ENTERPRISE’ OF NEWBIGGIN / 1994 - COBLE
7th 8th 9th - 1875 - COBLE ‘ROSANA’ OF SOUTH SHIELDS
10th - 1871 - SEVEN NEWBIGGIN COBLES / 1919 - ELEVEN NEWBIGGIN COBLES
11th 12th 13th - 1857 - COBLE OF BERWICK / 1897 - SHIP ASHORE AT CRESSWELL /
1915 - TORPEDOED VESSEL WHICH SANK
14th - 1906 - COBLE ‘SUNBEAM’ OF NEWBIGGIN / 2003 – 3 BOATS AT WANSBECK
15th - 1904 - UNKNOWN STEAM VESSEL /
1992 - COBLE ‘LILY OF THE VALLEY’ OF NEWBIGGIN
16th - 1904 - UNKNOWN STEAM VESSEL / 1914 - FIFTEEN NEWBIGGIN COBLES
2003 – BOAT IN SURF / 2005 – LITTLE MIKE
17th – 2003 – REPORT OF PERSONS IN DIFFICULTY
18th - 1915 - COBLES / 1979 - REPORT OF RED FLARES /
1988 - COBLE ‘CHILDREN’S PRIDE’ OF NEWBIGGIN / 1997 - SAILBOARD
19th - 1912 -NINETEEN NEWBIGGIN COBLES / 1912 - COBLE ‘ LOUISA’ OF NEWBIGGIN
20th - 1988 - PERSONS CUT OFF BY THE TIDE / 2002 – COBLE ‘ENDEAVOUR’ OF NEWBIGGIN
21st - 1912 - TWELVE NEWBIGGIN COBLES
22nd - 1900 - BRIG ‘FREDERICK’ OF BREMERHAVEN /
1900 - SCHOONER ‘ASPIRANT’ OF STAVANGER
23rd - 1992 - COBLE ‘CHILDREN’S PRIDE’ OF NEWBIGGIN
24th - 1909 - S.S. ‘BAVARIA’ OF STETTIN / 1924 -NINE NEWBIGGIN COBLES
25th 26th - 1903 - FOUR NEWBIGGIN COBLES / 1908 - THREE NEWBIGGIN COBLES
27th 28th - 1888 - TWENTY THREE NEWBIGGIN COBLES
29th - 1928 - ELEVEN NEWBIGGIN COBLES
30th 31st - 1920 - COBLE ‘FOLLOW ME’ OF NEWBIGGIN / 1951 - FIVE NEWBIGGIN COBLES /
2006 – INJURED MAN ON FISHING BOAT BROTHERS OF BLYTH
ON THIS DAY
NEWBIGGIN LIFEBOAT STATION SERVICES
RENDERED OVER THE LAST 162 YEARS DURING
THE MONTH OF APRIL
SERVICES SHOWN BOLD AND UNDERLINED WERE AWARDED SPECIAL RECOGNITION
1st - 1856 - COBLES / 1918 - SEAPLANE / 1946 - COBLE ‘FISHER LASS’ OF NEWBIGGIN / 2012 COBLE
2nd - 1880 - FOURTEEN NEWBIGGIN COBLES / 1977 - REPORT OF RED FLARE / 2011 - CANOE
3rd - 1930 - COBLES ‘OUR GIRLS’ AND ‘PROVIDER’ OF NEWBIGGIN
4th - 1906 - EIGHT NEWBIGGIN COBLES
5th - 1943 - COBLE ‘HUMILITY’ OF NEWBIGGIN / 1984 - CABIN CRUISER ‘JAVA’
2003 – CABIN BOAT ‘FINDUS’ / 2009 – MEDICAL EVACUATION FROM BEACH
6th – 2010 – YOUTH ON ROCKS – STOOD BY
7th - 1857 - BRIG ‘CATHERINE’ OF HARWICH / 1936 - COBLES / 1978 - REPORT OF RED FLARES
8th 9th 10th - 1962 - COBLE ‘MOTHER’S JOY’ OF NEWBIGGIN / 2007 - CANOE
11th - 1907 - COBLE ‘LOUISA’ OF NEWBIGGIN
12th - 1963 - SAILING COBLE ‘EGRET’ OF AMBLE /
1969 - COBLE ‘MARY ROBINSON’ OF NEWBIGGIN / 2007 COBLE ‘THREE SISTERS’
13th - 1874 - TWO NEWBIGGIN COBLES / 1897 - COBLE ‘TRY AGAIN’ OF NEWBIGGIN /
1920 - SEVEN NEWBIGGIN COBLES / 1958 - FISHING BOAT ‘TWO SISTERS’ /
1963 - CONVERTED SHIP’S LIFEBOAT ‘PIPER’ OF BLYTH
14th - 1953 - FIVE NEWBIGGIN COBLES
15th - 1905 - FIVE NEWBIGGIN COBLES
16th – 2000 – COBLE ‘ENDEAVOUR’ OF NEWBIGGIN / 2007 – PERSON IN SEA
17th 18th - 1967 - TEN NEWBIGGIN COBLES / 1984 - COBLE ‘MOONBEAM’
19th - 1944 - AEROPLANE / 1979 - FISHING BOAT ‘EMMA’ / 2011 - CARPET
20th 21st – 2011 – MISSING ANGLERS
22nd - 1984 - BATHER
23rd - 1981 - CAPSIZED BOAT
24th 25th - 1858 - BRIG ‘QUEST’ OF STOCKHOLM / 1859 - BRIG ‘DUEST’ OF STOCKHOLM
26th - 1919 - COBLE / 1965 - FOUR NEWBIGGIN COBLES
27th - 1892 - STOOD BY IN BOATHOUSE DUE TO GALE / 1898 - SIX NEWBIGGIN COBLES /
1903 - S.S. ‘ATIKI’ OF ANDROS, GREECE / 1992 - COBLES
28th - 1903 - S.S. ‘ATIKI’ OF ANDROS, GREECE /
1926 - STEAM TRAWLER ‘GEORGE R. PURDY’ OF NORTH SHIELDS
29th – 1999 – FISHING COBLE ‘MARGARET LISLE’;
30th - 1928 - STEAM TRAWLER ‘SARAH’ OF NORTH SHIELDS / 2007 – RECOVERED CANOE
ON THIS DAY…
NEWBIGGIN LIFEBOAT STATION SERVICES
RENDERED OVER THE LAST 162 YEARS DURING
THE MONTH OF MAY
1st – 2006 – COBLE ‘ENDEAVOUR’ OF NEWBIGGIN
2nd - 1897 - COBLE / 1991 - SAILING DINGHY
3rd - 1911 - COBLE ‘LOUISA’ OF NEWBIGGIN / 2001 – COBLE ‘CHALLENGE’ OF NEWBIGGIN
4th - 1971 – COBLES / 1998 – PLEASURE BOAT ‘CUSHY’ / 2008 – BUNCH OF BALLOONS
5th - 1956 - COBLES / 1986 - MOTOR BOAT ‘AUTHENTIC’
6th - 1988 - MOTOR BOAT ‘KELVIN JOYCE’
7th - 1918 - SUBMARINE / 1976 - REPORT OF RED FLARES
8th - 1878 - COBLE
9th 10th - 1897 - COBLE (stood by in the boathouse) / 1955 -THREE NEWBIGGIN COBLES /
1970 - SAILING CLUB DINGHY AND RESCUE BOAT / 1987 - MOTOR BOAT ‘KERRY ANN’
11th -1870 - SIX NEWBIGGIN COBLES
12th - 1902 - COBLES / 1960 - MAN IN THE SEA / 1962 - SMALL MOTOR BOAT / 2011 – FISHING
BOAT ‘WASP’
13th 14th - 1984 - COBLE ‘TIKI’
15th 16th – 2004 – CABIN BOAT
17th - 2009 – MEDICAL EVACUATION
18th 19th 20th 21st
22nd 23rd - 1967 - REPORT OF RED FLARES / 1971 - CABIN CRUISER ‘TE - RANGI’ / 2003 – MISSING
PERSON / 2012 – JETSKI (OTHERS COPED)
24th - 1963 - FOUR NEWBIGGIN COBLES / 2003 – BOAT ADRIFT
25th - 1909 - COBLE / 1994 - FISHING VESSEL ‘AN - MORDROS’ / 1997 – FISHING BOAT ‘OSPREY’
/ 2012 – SWIMMER (OTHERS COPED) / 2013 – REPORTED DISTRESS SIGNAL
26th 27th - 2009 – SAILING CLUB
28th – 2000 – FISHING BOAT ‘SEA SPRAY’ / 2013 – PERSONS CUT OFF BY TIDE
29th - 1888 - COBLE ‘GEORGE AND MARGARET’ OF NEWBIGGIN /
1987 - FISHING BOAT ‘OCEAN STAR’ / 2005 – PERSON OFF BRIDGE
30th - 1921 - COBLE ‘ISABELLA’ OF NEWBIGGIN
31st - 1954 - THREE NEWBIGGIN COBLES / 2005 – COBLE ‘THREE SISTERS’ OF NEWBIGGIN
2006 – PERSON IN DIFFICULTIES
ON THIS DAY…
NEWBIGGIN LIFEBOAT STATION SERVICES
RENDERED OVER THE LAST 162 YEARS DURING
THE MONTH OF JUNE
1st - 1977 - SPEED BOAT / 1982 - COBLE / 1994 – COBLE / 1998 – PLEASURE BOAT ‘LAUREN
KATE’ / 2008 – INJURED PERSON + CAPSIZED DINGHY
2nd - 1990 - CABIN CRUISER ‘SAM MAX WARRIOR’
3rd - 1964 - COBLE ‘MARY ROBINSON’ OF NEWBIGGIN / 2001 – LANDED SICK SAILOR
2007 – CONTRACTOR’S BARGE AGROUND
4th – 2005 – FISHING BOAT ‘THE BROTHERS’ OF BLYTH / 2006 – PERSONS INJURED ON
BREAKWATER / 2013 - KAYAK
5th - 1983 – DINGHY / 2004 – DOG ‘ZUES’ / 2006 – COBLE ‘CRYSTAL SEA’ OF NEWBIGGIN / 2013
ANGLING BOAT ‘MAY STAR’
6th – 2005 – SMALL OPEN BOAT
7th -1975 - COBLE ‘ROYAL DIADEM’OF NEWBIGGIN TAKING IN WATER /
1996 - FISHING BOAT ‘BLUE FIN’
8th 9th 10th – 2007 – UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT INVESTIGATED
11th - 1917 - ROWING BOAT
12th - 1978 - COBLES
13th – 2004 – MOTOR INFLATABLE / 2013 - INFLATABLE
14th - 1977 - COBLE ‘MARGARET RENNER’OF NEWBIGGIN
15th - 1926 - SEVEN NEWBIGGIN COBLES / 1981 - PLEASURE BOAT /
1982 -COBLE ‘ROYAL DIADEM’ OF NEWBIGGIN / 1994 - HORSE CUT OFF BY TIDE
16th 17th - 2007 – SMALL FISHING BOAT
18th 19th - 1964 - COBLE ‘EVENTIDE’ OF NEWBIGGIN / 2006 – BOAT ADRIFT
20th - 1959 - MOTOR BOAT ‘JOYCE’ / 1994 - BOAT ADRIFT / 2006 – BOAT ADRIFT / 2010 SPEEDBOAT
21st - 1967 - ENTERPRISE DINGHY / 1994 - BOAT EMMITING SMOKE
22nd - 1996 - PERSON CUT OFF BY THE TIDE / 2000 – PERSONS IN WATER (DINGHY) /
2002 – CABIN BOAT ‘HELEN ANN’ / 2010 - PERSONS CUT OFF BY THE TIDE
23rd - 1990 – SAILBOARD / 2002 – BOAT ADRIFT / 2010 – ANGLING BOAT, TOWED ASHORE
24th - 1950 - SPITFIRE AEROPLANE / 1985 - MOTOR BOAT ‘ANN’./.1999 – SPEEDBOAT
2001 – PERSON FALLEN OFF BOAT+RECOVERED BOAT
25th - 2006 – CABIN CRUISER ‘DOUBLE TROUBLE’ SINKING
26th - 1953 - S.S. ‘NEDJAN’ /1958 - COBLE / 1959 - SAILING BOAT ‘HAZEL’ / 1962 - COBLES /
1978 - COBLE / 2005 – SMALL CABIN BOAT / 2005 – CHARTER BOAT ‘BRAVEHEART’ / 2011
– ANGLING BOAT / 2011 - CANOE
27th - 1953 - S.S. ‘NEDJAN’ / 2006 – DRIFTING OBJECT
28th - 1963 - TWO NEWBIGGIN COBLES / 1993 - COBLE ‘LILY OF THE VALLEY’ OF NEWBIGGIN
2006 – UNIDENTIFIED INFLATABLE
29th - 1933 - THREE NEWBIGGIN COBLES
30th - 1890 - COBLE ‘JANE ISABELLA’ OF NEWBIGGIN / 1980 - COBLES /
1991 - MOTOR BOAT ‘BEAUFORT CYCLONE 13’ / 2001 – CABIN BOAT
ON THIS DAY…
NEWBIGGIN LIFEBOAT STATION SERVICES
RENDERED OVER THE LAST 162 YEARS DURING
THE MONTH OF JULY
1st - 1879 - SEVEN NEWBIGGIN COBLES / 2003 – PERSONS IN SEA
2nd – 2006 – FISHING COBLE ‘ENDEAVOUR’ OF NEWBIGGIN
3rd - 1968 - COBLES
4th 5th – 1998 – PLEASURE BOAT ‘CANNY CATCH’; 2009 – INFLATABLE / 2012 –ANGLING BOAT
6th - 1984 – SAILBOARD - / 2005 – REPORT OF RED FLARES / 2009 – COBLE ‘JULIE KAREN’
7th - 1912 - TRAWLER ‘LORD RIDLEY OF BLYTH’ / 1991 - SAILING DINGHY
8th - 2007 – SPEEDBOAT / 2012 – DOG ‘BELLA’
9th - 1996 - PERSONS CUT OFF BY THE TIDE
10th - 2003 – DISTRESSED PERSON / 2010- COBLE ‘AUDREY ARTHUR’ TOWED ASHORE
11th 12th - 1961 TWO NEWBIGGIN COBLES / 2009 - CANOES
13th - 1917 - MOTOR HERRING BOAT ‘BOY STANLEY’ OF NORTH SHIELDS /
1996 - PERSON IN THE SEA / 2003 – PERSONS ON INFLATABLES / 2005 – REPORT OF RED
FLARES
14th - 1967 - EIGHT NEWBIGGIN COBLES / 2007 – CAPSIZED DINGHY / 2010 – REPORTED
MAYDAY / 2010 – KYAKS &PERSONS IN THE WATER
15th - 1919 - COBLE ‘JOHN ELLEN’ OF NEWBIGGIN / 1953 - DINGHY IN DIFFICULTY /
1971 - COBLE ‘FISHER LASS’ OF NEWBIGGIN / 1990 - MOTOR BOAT
16th – 2003 – CHILD IN SEA / 2011 – MISSING PERSON / 2013 – PLEASURE BOAT
17th - 1987 – COBLES / 2003 – PERSONS IN SEA
18th - 1975 - PLEASURE BOAT ‘CAROL’
19th - 2008 – PERSONS STUCK ON BREAKWATER / 2008 SMALL BOAT ADRIFT / 2009 – FISHING
BOAT / 2013 – PLEASURE BOAT
20th 21st - 1987 - MOTOR BOAT ‘KERRY ANN’ / 1996 - CABIN BOAT / 1997 – PLEASURE BOAT
‘GEMMA ANN’
22nd – 2006 – MOTOR BOAT ‘MISTER BIG’
23rd 24th - 1912 - PLEASURE BOAT / 1991 - PERSONS CUT OFF BY THE TIDE / 2004 YACHT OFF
NEWTON!!?? / 2006 – COBLE ‘JULIE KAREN’
25th - 2001 – PERSONS CUT OFF BY TIDE / 2006 – MISSING CHILD / 2008 – PERSONS & DOG CUT
OFF BY THE TIDE / 2009 – YACHT ASHORE / 2011 – FISHING COBLE ‘CHILDREN’S PRIDE’
26th - 1992 - CABIN CRUISER / 2013 – DRIFTING LOG
27th – 2011 – PERSONS ON REEF
28th - 1996 - CABIN BOAT / 2002 - INFLATABLE
29th - 1974 - FISHING BOAT / 2001 - WINDSURFER
30th - 1988 – COBLE / 1998 – TRAWLER ‘HAYLEY H.’ ON FIRE / 2002 – YACHTS AGROUND
2006 – CHILDREN ON INFLATABLE
31st - 1973 - CABIN CRUISER ‘SOUTHERN CROSS’ / 1996 - MISSING PERSON IN THE SEA
1998 – EX SHIP’S LIFEBOAT ‘HELEN’
ON THIS DAY
NEWBIGGIN LIFEBOAT STATION SERVICES
RENDERED OVER THE LAST 162 YEARS DURING
THE MONTH OF AUGUST
SERVICES SHOWN BOLD AND UNDERLINED WERE AWARDED SPECIAL RECOGNITION
1st - 1976 - INFLATABLE DINGHY / 1976 - PLEASURE FISHING BOAT ‘AARON’ /
1995 - PERSONS CUT OFF BY THE TIDE / 1997 – FISHING BOAT ‘D.J.’ / 1998 – FISHING BOAT
‘COLLETTE LOUISE’
2nd 3rd - 1876 - COBLES / 1917 - BOATS OF STEAMSHIP ‘HORNCHURCH’ OF LONDON /
1981 - PERSON CUT OFF BY THE TIDE / 1988 - CABIN CRUISER ‘CLAIRE LOUISE’
2002 – PERSON IN THE SEA / 2008 – FLOATING DEBRIS / 2013 - INFLATABLE
4th - 1996 - PERSON IN THE SEA / 2001 – PERSONS CUT OFF BY TIDE / 2012 - DINGHY
5th - 1966 - COBLE ‘EVENTIDE’ OF NEWBIGGIN / 1995 - CABIN BOAT / 1996 – COBLE
2003 – PERSON IN THE SEA
6th - 1966 - COBLE ‘EVENTIDE’ OF NEWBIGGIN / 1983 - MEDICAL EVACUATION /
1999 – SPEEDBOAT / 2006 – CABIN BOAT / 2013 – PERSONS CUT OFF BY TIDE
7th - 1983 - DINGHY - 1994 - SMALL FISHING BOAT / 1997 – PERSONS CUT OFF BY THE TIDE
8th - 1992 - CABIN CRUISER
9th - 1961 - DINGHY / 1988 – AIRBED / 1997 – INFLATABLE / 1998 – PERSON WASHED INTO THE
SEA / 2013 - INFLATABLE
10th - 1966 - COBLE ‘EVENTIDE’ OF NEWBIGGIN / 1974 - PLEASURE FISHING BOAT
11th - 1966 - COBLE ‘EVENTIDE’ OF NEWBIGGIN / 1966 - COBLES / 1975 - MISSING BOAT /
1995 – YACHT / 2005 – CABIN BOAT
12th - 1948 - COBLE ‘ADVENTURE’ OF NEWBIGGIN
13th - 1990 – COBLE / 1997 – FISHING BOAT ‘HAPPY RETURN’ / 2013 – TWO FERRETS SAVED
14th - 1995 – AIRBED / 1998 – FISHING COBLE ‘CRYSTAL SEA’
15th - 1940 - GERMAN AIRCRAFT / 1980 - OVERDUE FISHING BOAT / 1989 – COBLES /
2010 – ANGLING BOAT
16th - 1982 - MAN FALLEN OFF A CLIFF / 1997 – BOAT ADRIFT / 2007 – MISSING PERSON / 2012 SWIMMERS
17th – 2005 - SWIMMER
18th - 1996 - SPEEDBOAT
19th - 1986 - CABIN CRUISER ‘JASPER II’ / 2011 – INFLATABLE / 2013 - INFLATABLE
20th - 1983 - COBLE ‘GOLDEN CITY’ / 1992 - YACHT ‘DUMP TRUCK’
21st - 1966 - SAILING CLUB RESCUE BOAT AND TWO DINGHIES
22nd – 2010 – RED FLARES – NOTHING FOUND
23rd - 1940 - COBLE ‘GEORGE AND MARGARET’ OF NEWBIGGIN /
1970 -BOAT AND ROWING BOAT / 1993 - SAILING DINGHY / 2005 – MISSING PERSON /
2005 – COBLE ‘MARGARET LISLE’ OF NEWBIGGIN / 2013 – BOAT ASHORE
24th - 1899 - S.S. ‘ISTOK’ OF RAGUSA / 2002 – DOG ‘ROCKY’ RESCUED
25th - 1992 - PERSON IN THE SEA / 2000 – CABIN BOAT / 2009 – INFLATABLE
26th - 1996 - CABIN BOAT
27th – 2004 – COBLE ‘CHALLENGE’
28th - 2001 – PERSON FALLEN OFF CLIFFS (HOAX) / 2003 – LOCAL COBLE ‘CRYSTAL SEA’
29th - 1976 - BATHER IN DIFFICULTIES / 1976 - CABIN BOAT ‘JANPAUMAR’ /
1996 - PERSON WASHED INTO THE SEA / 2001 – PERSON IN THE SEA – 2005 - INFLATABLE
30th - 1975 - COBLES ‘ENDEAVOUR’ AND ‘MARGARET LISLE’ OF NEWBIGGIN / 2008 – CABIN
CRUISER / 2011 – PERSONS STRANDED
31st - 1992 - COBLE ‘MARGARET LISLE’ OF NEWBIGGIN / 1999 PERSONS ON INFLATABLE /
1999 – REPORT OF INFLATABLE ADRIFT / 2009 – PERSON ON REEF
ON THIS DAY…
NEWBIGGIN LIFEBOAT STATION SERVICES
RENDERED OVER THE LAST 162 YEARS DURING
THE MONTH OF
SEPTEMBER
1st – 2012 – ASLEEP ON DRIFTING BOAT
2nd 3rd 4th - 1964 - UNIDENTIFIED MAYDAY SIGNAL / 1977 - YACHT ‘NORTH STAR’
2003 – CABIN BOAT
5th - 1992 - CAPSIZED FISHING BOAT / 1994 - CABIN BOAT ‘JULIE LEE’/ 1999 – SPEEDBOAT
1999 – CABIN BOAT / 2002 – DOG / 2008 – ASSISTED WITH MORPETH FLOODS / 2011 – LIFE
RING / 2013 – COBLE ‘THREE SISTERS R’
6th - 2008 – MORPETH FLOODS
7th - 1988 - CABIN CRUISER ‘WILD GOOSE’ / 2010 – SURFER IN ROUGH SEA
8th - 1916 - STEAM SHIP ‘BELLA’ OF SWEEDEN/ 1976 - COBLE /
1980 - CONVERTED SHIP’S LIFEBOAT
9th - 1870 -COBLES / 1993 - COBLE ‘LILY OF THE VALLEY’ OF NEWBIGGIN / 2013 - KAYAK
10th - 1953 - FIVE NEWBIGGIN COBLES / 1999 - SPEEDBOAT
11th – 2009 – FISHING BOAT / 2011 – SWIMMERS / 2012 – ANGLING BOAT
12th 13th – 2006 – MEDICAL ASSISTANCE ON BEACH
14th - 1966 - SMALL MOTOR BOAT
15th - 1878 - COBLES
16th - 1900 - S.S. ‘KLONDYKE’ OF NORWAY / 1954 - COBLES
17th - 1966 - PERSON FALLEN OFF THE NORTH SEA FERRY ‘LEDA’ / 2008 – COBLE ‘THREE
SISTERS R’
18th 19th - 1868 - COBLES
20th - 1994 – COBLE / 2001 – PERSON MISSING / 2002 - DOG ‘ROCKY’ RESCUED
21st - 1986 - SAILBOARD
22nd - 1908 - S.S. ‘EGLANTINE’ OF NORTH SHIELDS / 1927 - COBLES /
1995 - PERSON IN THE SEA / 2003 – COBLE ‘CHALLENGE’ /2013 – INJURED PERSON
23rd - 1879 - COBLES / 1879 - SCHOONER ‘UNION T.’ / 1998 – PERSONS CUT OFF BY THE TIDE
24th - 1867 - SEVEN NEWBIGGIN COBLES / 1983 - TRAWLER ‘BREADWINNER’
25th – 2005 – SMALL MOTOR BOAT / 2010 – VEHICLE AND BOAT SWAMPED ON BEACH
26th - 1981 - COBLES ‘ADVENTURE’ AND ‘MARGARET LISLE’ OF NEWBIGGIN / 2005 – COBLE
‘ASHLIEGH JANE’ OF CAMBOIS / 2009 – ‘MEERKAT’, TOWED TO BEACH / 2013 – FISHING
BOAT ‘BONAVENTURE’
27th - 1977 - REPORT OF A RED FLARE
28th - 1873 - SCHOONER ‘PRESERVANCE’ / 1940 - FIVE NEWBIGGIN COBLES / 1998 – PLEASURE
BOAT ‘LISA AYLASH’
29th – 2006 – COBLE ENDEAVOUR OF NEWBIGGIN
30th - 1920 - COBLE / 1969 - RAF RESCUE LAUNCH
ON THIS DAY…
NEWBIGGIN LIFEBOAT STATION SERVICES
RENDERED OVER THE LAST 162 YEARS DURING
THE MONTH OF OCTOBER
SERVICES SHOWN BOLD AND UNDERLINED WERE AWARDED SPECIAL RECOGNITION
1st – 2004 – PERSON IN SEA
2nd - 1895 - STEAM FISHING BOAT ‘TEAL DUCK’ OF NORTH SHIELDS / 1999 – COBLE
‘ENDEAVOUR’
3rd - 1867 - COBLES
4th – 1997 – COBLE ‘MARGARET LISLE’
5th - 1988 - FISHING VESSEL ‘SCIROCCO’ / 1997 – REPORT OF RED FLARES
6th – 2005 – SMALL OPEN BOAT / 2007 – BOAT AGROUND
7th - 1962 - CABIN CRUISER ‘MEDINA’ /
8th - 1974 – COBLES / 1997 – CAPSIZED INFLATABLE DINGHY /
2002 – REPORT OF PERSON IN SEA
9th - 1896 - TWO NEWBIGGIN COBLES / 1966 - REPORTED BOAT IN DIFFICULTY
10th – 1999 – CABIN BOAT ‘SEA QUEST’ OF BLYTH
11th – 1998 - SPEEDBOAT
12th - 1870 – COBLES
13th - 1911 - S.S. ‘KARUMA’ OF HAMBURG /
1913 - STEAM TRAWLER ‘JOHN MEIKLE’ OF NORTH SHIELDS / 2007 - CAPSIZED BOAT
14th - 1875 - COBLE ‘WILLIAM AND MARY’ OF NEWBIGGIN /
1875 - SCHOONER ‘POST’ OF WYEBURG / 1881 - S.S. ‘NORTHUMBERLAND’ /
1920 - STEAM TUG ‘ CRETEWHEEL’
15th - 1955 - COBLES / 1963 - COBLE ‘GUIDING LIGHT’ OF NEWBIGGIN
16th – 1998 - COBLES
17th - 1865 - SLOOP ‘ROBIN HOOD’ OF NEWCASTLE /
1980 - COBLE IN TOW OF FISHERY PROTECTION VESSEL ‘SIR JOHN CRASTER’
18th - 1997 – PERSONS CUT OFF BY THE TIDE
19th - 1939 - SIX NEWBIGGIN COBLES / 1979 - REPORT OF RED FLARES
20th - 1962 - REPORT OF RED FLARES / 1985 - BOY FALLEN OFF CLIFFS
21st - 1868 - COBLES
22nd 23rd - 1864 - SCHOONER ‘FOREST’ OF MONTROSE / 1995 - SMALL CABIN BOAT
24th - 1908 - COBLES / 1957 - OVERDUE SMALL BOAT /
1964 - COBLE ‘ADVENTURE’ OF NEWBIGGON / 1990 - FISHING VESSEL ‘LADY GWEN’ /
2011 – JET SKI
25th – 2007 – DOG STUCK ON ROCK
26th - 1865 - COBLES / 1880 - BAD WEATHER; STOOD BY IN THE BOATHOUSE /
1923 - SEVEN NEWBIGGIN COBLES / 1939 - COBLE ‘HUMILITY’ OF NEWBIGGIN /
1988 - BOY FALLEN OFF SEA DEFENCES
27th - 1910 - SEVEN NEWBIGGIN COBLES / 1952 - COBLES / 1959 - COBLE /
1972 - FISHING BOAT ‘ANITA ANN’
28th 29th – 2004 – PERSON IN THE SEA / 2011 – SAILING CLUB RESCUE BOAT
30th 31st - 1894 – COBLES
ON THIS DAY…
NEWBIGGIN LIFEBOAT STATION SERVICES
RENDERED OVER THE LAST 162 YEARS DURING
THE MONTH OF
NOVEMBER
1st - 1988 - FISHING VESSEL ‘LADY GWEN’
2nd - 1903 - STEAM TRAWLER ‘GRECIAN PRINCE’ OF SHIELDS / 2002 - COBLES
3rd - 1916 - THIRTEEN NEWBIGGIN COBLES / 1934 - NEWBIGGIN FISHING FLEET /
1984 - COBLE ‘ENTERPRISE’ OF NEWBIGGIN / 2002 – PERSONS IN DANGER
4th 5th – 2011 – ABANDONED VEHICLE IN SEA
6th - 1902 - S.S.’ GRENWICH’ OF LONDON / 1931 - COBLES
7th 8th - 1878 - COBLES / 1902 - COBLE ‘ROSE OF ENGLAND’ OF NEWBIGGIN /
1964 - RIVER BARGE ‘CRESCENT BRAND’ /
1986 - COBLE ‘THREE SISTERS’ OF NEWBIGGIN / 1997 –REPORT OF MISSING CHILD
9th - 1910 - COBLES / 1949 - COBLES / 1994 - HORSE IN THE SEA
10th - 1904 - S.S. ‘WILLIE OF AMSTERDAM / 1986 - COBLES / 1996 - COBLE
11th - 1898 - REPORT OF SHIP ASHORE / 1996 - EX SHIP’S LIFEBOAT ‘EMMA’ / 1996 - COBLE
12th - 1901 - KETCH ‘SAMMUEL AND ANN’ OF HULL / 2001 – THREE COBLES
13th - 1921 - SIX NEWBIGGIN COBLES / 1922 - S.S. ‘THEOBANO SIBERIDES’ OF PIRAEUS
14th - 1984 - COBLE ‘THREE SISTERS’ OF NEWBIGGIN
15th - 1900 - COBLES / 1971 - THREE NEWBIGGIN COBLES / 1983 -TWO NEWBIGGIN COBLES /
2008 – FISHING COBLE ‘CRYSTAL SEA’ / 2010 - FISHING COBLE ‘CRYSTAL SEA’
16th - 1955 - FISHING BOAT ON FIRE / 1973 - TWO NEWBIGGIN COBLES
17th - 1864 - TWENTY ONE NEWBIGGIN COBLES
18th - 1893 - SCHOONER ‘POSIDON’ OF SKIEN, NORWAY / 2012 – CAR IN SEA
19th - 1873 - SCHOONER ‘ADELADE RAY’ OF PORTSMOUTH / 1908 - COBLE /
1978 - REPORT OF RED FLARES
20th - 1991 - FISHING VESSEL ‘LADY GWEN’ / 1995 – COBLES / 2003 – COBLE ‘ENDEVOUR’
21st 22nd - 1887 - THIRTY NEWBIGGIN COBLES / 1957 - FISHING BOAT ‘JEAN’ /
1981 - MAN INJURED AT CLIFFS
23rd - 1860 - SCHOONER ‘ROSE’ OF LYNN / 1902 - TRAWLER ‘NILE’ OF HULL /
1928 - NEWBIGGIN FISHING FLEET / 1955 - COBLE ‘OCEAN PRIDE’ OF AMBLE /
1992 - COBLE ‘LILY OF THE VALLEY’
24th - 1920 - ELEVEN NEWBIGGIN COBLES
25th - 1868 - COBLES / 1968 – COBLES / 1999 – DOG ‘BARNEY’
26th - 1880 - SCHOONER ‘BRAES OF MORAY’ / 1907 - COBLE ‘THISTLE’ OF NEWBIGGIN /
1945 - SEVEN NEWBIGGIN COBLES
27th - 1910 - S.S. ‘ELEANOR’ OF SOUTH SHIELDS
28th - 1911 - COBLES / 1923 - FOUR NEWBIGGIN COBLES
29th - 1926 - FIVE NEWBIGGIN COBLES / 1990 - FISHING VESSEL ‘LADY GWEN’
30th - 1911 - FOUR NEWBIGGIN COBLES
ON THIS DAY…
NEWBIGGIN LIFEBOAT STATION SERVICES
RENDERED OVER THE LAST 162 YEARS DURING
THE MONTH OF
DECEMBER
1st - 1893 - COBLES
2nd - 1898 - COBLE / 1914 - COBLE / 1996 - COBLE
3rd - 1898 - COBLES
4th - 1882 - COBLES / 1923 - FOURTEEN NEWBIGGIN COBLES / 1934 - TRAWLER
5th - 1927 - NINE NEWBIGGIN COBLES / 1960 - SWIMMERS
6th 7th - 1912 - S.S. ‘CLUNEY’ OF INVERNESS / 1990 - TWO NEWBIGGIN COBLES
8th 9th - 1856 - NINETEEN NEWBIGGIN COBLES / 1904 - S.S. ‘ANGLIA’ OF NORWAY
10th - 1903 - FIVE NEWBIGGIN COBLES / 1907 - TWELVE NEWBIGGIN COBLES
11th - 1996 - FISHING BOAT ‘OSPREY’
12th - 1911 - COBLES / 1913 - FOURTEEN NEWBIGGIN COBLES /
1993 - FOUR NEWBIGGIN COBLES / 1993 - ANGLERS CUT OFF BY THE TIDE
13th - 1889 - BRIG ‘JANET’ / 1897 - TEN NEWBIGGIN COBLES /
1902 - S.S. ‘JARTIA’ OF FLANSBURG / 1914 - S.S. ‘CAPE HOR’
14th - 1992 - CABIN CRUISER / 1999 – FISHING COBLE ‘ENDEAVOUR’
15th - 1899 - S.S. ‘TUBULAR’ OF DUNDEE / 1939 - INVESTIGATE REPORT OF AN EXPLOSION
16th - 1905 - VESSEL THOUGHT TO BE AGROUND /
1917 - PATROL BOAT ‘WILLIAM DAWNES’ OF SHIELDS
17th - 1919 - S.S.’MALMOHUS’ OF MALMO / 1936 THREE NEWBIGGIN COBLES
1945 - COBLE
18th - 1889 - BRIG ‘JANET’ / 1901 - S.S. ‘CHRISTIANIA’ OF HAUGESUND
19th - 1940 - EIGHT NEWBIGGIN COBLES / 2000 – COBLE ‘CHALLENGE’
20th 21st - 1876 - BARQUE ‘GEM OF THE NORTH’ OF BLYTH /
1943 - COBLE ‘ROBERT AND JANE’ OF NEWBIGGIN
22nd - 1886 - S.S. ‘ ACASTER’ OF HARTLEPOOL / 1958 - RAF HUNTER AIRCRAFT
23rd - 1898 - COBLES / 1899 - STEAM TRAWLER ‘ PAULINE’ OF SUNDERLAND /
1938 - S.S.’SKARV’ OF SUNDERLAND (two launches to this casualty)
24th - 1876 - SCHOONER ‘MARY ANN JANE’ OF SUNDERLAND / 1892 - S.S. ‘VERDANDI’ OF
GOTTENBURG / 1933 - S.S. ‘GLENROSE’ OF NEWCASTLE - UPON - TYNE
25th 26th - 1912 - ELEVEN NEWBIGGIN COBLES
27th – 2000 – REPORT OF PERSON IN SEA
28th - 1865 - BRIG ‘NEPTUNE’ OF DELAWARE, U.S.A. /
1897 - TWENTY FOUR NEWBIGGIN COBLES / 1927 - ELEVEN NEWBIGGIN COBLES /
1996 - REPORT OF RED FLARES
29th - 1894 - COBLE ‘EDWARD SHORT’ OF NEWBIGGIN /
1926 - COBLE ‘LILY BROWN’ OF CRESSWELL
30th 31st – 2008 – COBLE ‘ENDEAVOUR’ OF NEWBIGGIN
RICHARD J. MARTIN – STATION MECHANIC
DETAILS CORRECT TO 2707/2013.