LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
H.M. Drifter Gowan
FEBRUARY 6TH. - BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. At 5.25 A.M. the coastguard at Carnoustie telephoned that distress flares had been seen between Horseshoe and Lady Buoys, and the motor life-boat Mona was launched at 6 A.M. A westerly gale was blowing,...
(Below) Class Reinforced Plastic
(Below) Class reinforced plastic boats are laid up inside a mould so that a prescribed hull shape can be turned out time and again.
Each hull is laid up as a single piece of continuous material from stem to stern, with no... - View image in PDF
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire - On 21st May, 1969, the reserve life-boat Crawford and Constance Conybeare, on temporary duty at the station, slipped her moorings to go to the help of a boy who had fallen over the cliff at Manorbier. A full account of...
Drawing from Experience
Keith lli:ih hn, the ItNIJ's Senior Naval Arrhitn t. looks :it lifeboat development over the past 175 v. rs, Modern lifeboats are highly sophisticated craft with unique features which enable them to survive when lesser craft would be in...
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APRIL 1ST. - KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD.
Fires at sea had been reported, but after thelife-boat had gone some miles out it became evident that they were right across the channel near the Welsh coast. - Rewards, £19 13s....
Provider
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of 2nd March only one fishing boat—• the Provider—took the risk of going to sea, as the weather was bad and a heavy sea was breaking a long way outside the harbour entrance. It was decided to send the motor...
Life-Boat Services In 1901
Lives saved.
Astrsea, schooner, of Dartmouth—• rendered assistance.
Alfred, ketch, of Padstow—rendered assistance and landed 4.
Ardlethen, P.S., of Aberdeen—ren- dered...
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The Seine-Net Fishing Boat Avondale
DOCTOR TAKEN TO FISHING BOAT Scarborough, Yorkshire. At 9.45 on the morning of the 12th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the seine-net fishing boat Avondale of Hartlepool, which was making for Scarborough, had a sick man...
The S.S. Cornish
The S.S. Cornish Rose, of Liverpool, bound from Fowey to Preston, with a crew of nine, got into difficulties when about twenty-one miles north of Pendeen on the evening of the 6th December. Her fires had been extinguished by heavy seas, and...
Index to Advertisers
Birds Eye Foods Henry Browne and Son Ltd Evett Sailwear Fairey Marine Johnston David Jolly (Tiller Master) Michael Joseph Neco Marine Mermaid Marine Products and Service Guide .
Routledge & Kegan Paul V. Webster...
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