LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Help of An Octopus
THE honorary secretary of the Exmouth station, who raises money for the branch by selling flowers at the boathouse, has found another and unexpected source of revenue. While fishing off Budleigh Salterton in July he caught an octopus. He...
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Isabella and Nina
On the morning of the 20th June the coast- guard reported that a small local fishing boat, the Isabella and Nina, with one man on board, was fishing south of Dundonnie Head, and as a strong gale was blowing from the north, and the sea was...
West Coaster
Helvick Head, Co. Waterford. — On the 9th October, 1939, a W. by S. wind was blowing, with a heavy sea. At 2 P.M. the motor life-boat Elsie was launched to the help of the motor vessel West Coaster, of. London, which was in distress in the...
Viper
Portrush, Co. Antrim.—During the morning of the llth January, 1938, the local motor fishing boat Viper's engine broke down when she was fishing about half a mile west of Ramore Head. She carried a crew of four. Another fishing boat, The...
Fiona
St. Helier, Jersey.—At six o'clock on the evening of the 28th of April, 1953, the harbourmaster rang up to say that the owner of the local fishing boat Fiona had reported that the boat was overdue with a crew of two, and that he felt...
None
Howth, Co. Dublin.—At 2.45 oi\ the afternoon of the 6th of June, 1953, a local boatman reported that a girl had fallen over a cliff into the sea at the Nose of Howth, half a mile from the harbour. At 2.55 the life-boat...
Fishing Boats (1)
BridUngton, Yorkshire.—At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 27th of November, 1953, during bad weather, the coast- guard assembled the coastguard shore life-saving team to man the piers in case any fishing boat entering the harbour needed help....
Mizpah
Bridlington, Yorkshire.—At half pa^t one in the afternoon on the 9th of November, 1949, the coxswain reported that .the local motor fishing vessel Mizpah, with a crew of four, had not returned from the fishing...
Catherine
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. —• At 6.30 on the morning of the 28th of October, 1950, the life-boat Annie BlancheSmithhad just left her moorings with five of the life-boat crew aboard (she was going on to a slipway for cleaning), when a small...
Crusader
Margate, Kent.—At 2.16 in the afternoon of the 13th of December, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a motor boat, with two boys on board, appeared to have broken down and to be drifting seawards. She was one and a half miles...