LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Widgeon, of Rosslare
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wezford. — At 7.55 in the evening of the 13th of July, 1949, the Civic Guard at Rosslare Strand reported that a pleasure boat under sail, with a crew of five, had cap- sized about seven hundred yards from the...
Bankville
Barrow, Lancashire.—-At 7.5 on the evening of the 20th of December, 1952, the Walney Island coastguard tele- phoned that the coaster Bankville, of Liverpool, was in distress with a shifted cargo ten miles west of Walney lighthouse. At 7.30...
Mavis
Blyth, Northumberland.—At 2.35 on the afternoon of the 13th of December, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that the fishing coble Mavis, with a crew of two, was overdue, and at three o'clock the life-boat Winston Churchill, Civil...
Fishing Boats (1)
Whitby, Yorkshire. On the 4th of April, 1960, there was a heavy ground sea on the bar, which made it dangerous for boats to enter harbour. As the local fishing fleet was still at sea, in- cluding a number of small cobles, it was decided to...
Kelpie, of London
On the 28th December this life-boat again went off, in reply to signals of distress from a vessel which was observed to stop in her course near the shoal of the Barber Sand.
On the -life-boat arriving alongside, the vessel...
A Bronze Medal Service at Blyth
ABOUT five in the evening of 23rd December, 1938, the coastguard rang up the life-boat station at Blyth, Northumberland, to report a ship, firing rockets and blowing her whistle, about three miles east of Newbiggin Point. At 5.15 the motor...
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Maritime Book Society (Readers Union)
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Maritime Book Society (Readers Union)
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Notes of the Quarter By the Editor
LIFEBOATS, IT IS OFTEN SAID, put OUt when other vessels are seeking the shelter of harbour. An example of how a lifeboat was able to carry out a mission while other well-found vessels were unable even to leave harbour occurred on the night...
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Horace
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 11.15 on the morning of the 21st of November, 1954, the Customs Water Guard Officer reported that the eight-feet dinghy Horace, of New Brighton, was drifting in the Rock Channel with three boys on board. At 11.42...