LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Baltic and Dagmar, Mermaid, and Schooner Vilfrid
HARTLEPOOL.—On the 27th March the Life-boats Charles Ingleby and Cyclist were taken out three times with the view of assisting vessels which were in danger in a gale of wind backing from E.N.E. to N.E., accompanied by a very high...
An Eye for Detail In Lifeboat Design
FREE PASSAGE OF AIR into engine room and cabins of a motor boat under way is essential to both machinery and man.
Without it, engines cannot run and the well-being and efficiency of the crew would soon be impaired. It...
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Sarah K.
Engine room flooded THE COXSWAIN of Wells lifeboat was informed by HM Coastguard at 1412 on Friday November 20, 1981, that there was a possible casualty 2Vi miles north of Brancaster, and the coxswain immediately passed on to the station...
Guiding Light
Tynemouth, Northumberland - At 11.25 a.m. on I2th May, 1967, it was learned that the coble Guiding Light with a man and a young boy on board was overdue from a fishing trip. The coastguard searched to the limit of visibility but could not...
Apt
At 11.5 a.m. on I9th July, 1967, a call was received by the coxswain of the lifeboat Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service No.
35) from the fishing vessel Apt of Ilfracombe that her propeller was fouled by a trawl. The...
Jane, of Rochester
The No. 1 Life-boat, Sisters, on the 9th December, rescued 2 men from the barge Jane, of Eochester, which was disabled, and landed them in safety. It was blowing hard at the time from W..
The Schooner, Sisters of Wick
On the 19th De- cember the schooner Sisters, of Wick, stone laden/lying in Scrabster Bay, showed sig- nals of distress, it blowing very hard from N.N.E. The Thurso life-boat at once pro- ceeded to her assistance, and brought on shore in...
A Life-Boat for Turkey
A 35-feet 6-inches twin screw self- righting life-boat has been built at Cowes, to the plans and specification of the Institution, for the Turkish State Railways and Harbour Adminis- tration. She left Cowes for Istanbul in April. It is...
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Fishing Boats (2)
Whitby, Yorkshire. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 10th of Decem- ber, 1959, it was decided to launch the life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth to stand by while five local fishing vessels re- turned to harbour in very bad weather.
Guillemot
AUGUST 3lST. - KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD.
At 10 P.M. lamp signals were seen from a position two miles E.S.E. of Small Saltee Island, and the motor life-boat Ann Isabella Pyemont was launched at 11.15 P.M.
A...