LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Winter and War
EVEN if there had been no war the winter of 1939 to 1940 would have been one to try the endurance of the life-boat crews to the utmost. To the gales and high seas was added a cold so severe and so prolonged as scarcely to have been known...
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A Fishing Boat (4)
JULY 3RD. - PETERHEAD, ABER-DEENSHIRE. A fishing boat had gone ashore, but her crew were landed by a motor boat. - Rewards, £5 14s. 6d.
(See Whinnyfold, “ Services by Shoreboats,” page 99.).
Photograph By Courtesy of Bristol Evening Post
Photograph by courtesy of Bristol Evening Post.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Admiralty Trawler Moray and Empire Ned (1)
DECEMBER 13TH - 14TH. - DUNMORE, EAST, CO. WATERFORD, AND KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD. Just before half-past five in the evening the coast watcher at Hook Point telephoned to the Dunmore East station that a vessel was off the Hook showing flares....
Collisions at Sea
WE extract from the Nautical Magazine the following paper from the pen of Capt. K. B. MARTIN, Harbour Master, Ramsgate.
It contains some pertinent remarks on the subject of collisions at sea, and especially points to an...
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DECEMBER 3RD. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At about 11.20 P.M. on the 2nd December a terrific explosion was heard, followed by a series of small explosions, and then rockets were seen going up from the Tuskar Rock...
A Fishing Boat (1)
15th March.
A fishing boat was missing, but made port while the life-boat was searching.
—Rewards, £9 19s. 6d..
A Motor Boat
Humber, Yorkshire. — 1st August.
A motor boat developed engine trouble and started to drift, but managed to restart the engine again.—Permanent Crew.—Rewards, 6s..
A Motor Boat
Whitehills, Banffshire.—20th January, 1938. A motor boat's engine had broken down, but another motor boat took her in tow.—Rewards, £1116s. 6d..