LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Book Review
0 In Power Boats in Rough Seas (Adlard Coles Ltd., £4.25) Dag Pike has taken a sharp, discerning look at the factors affecting the seaworthiness and safety of power boats and described them in concise, seamanlike terms. Whatever...
Category: Articles
Margaret Herd
CREW RESCUED At 4.25 a.m. on 9th April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Margaret Herd was ashore near Fraserburgh.
Later the coastguard reported that red flares had been...
The German Fishing Boat Angela
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 11.8 on the morning of the 10th of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the German fishing boat Angela had an injured man on board, who needed a doctor. The boat was due...
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Category: Advertisement
A Vessel
Helvick Head, Co. Waterford— 14th January, 1938. Flares had been reported outside the harbour, but the vessel which made them was only waiting for the tide in order to enter the roads.—Rewards, £15..
An Adventurous Life
Man the Hopes (Hodder and Stoughton, 12s. (Jd.) is the autobiography of Mr.
Augustine Courtauld, a Vice-President and a member of the Committee of Management. It tells the story of an engrossing and adventurous life: of his...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Glendenning
JANUARY 19TH. - BLYTH, NORTH-UMBERLAND. At about 11 A.M. the coastguard telephoned that a steamer was ashore on the rocks close to the east pier.
A strong S.S.E. wind was blowing, with very heavy seas. The motor life-boat...
A Pram Dinghy
ADRIFT AND LEAKING Holyhead, Anglesey. At 11.33 a-mon 2nd February, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two small boys were adrift in a pram dinghy which was leaking and oar-less in the outer harbour. There was a moderate...
A Yacht (4)
Humber, Yorkshire. At 3.30 on the afternoon of the 21st of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties on the Outer Binks. At 3.45 the life-boat City of Bradford III was...
John Mikle
The steam trawler John Meikle, of North Shields, when homeward bound from fishing on the 13th October, stranded half a mile to the north of Newbiggin Point, in a very heavy fog, a moderate S.E. gale and rough sea. Information of the casualty...