LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Fishing Yawl and a Motor Boat
ESCORT FOR YAWL AND MOTOR BOAT Longhope, Orkney. At 10.45 a.m. on Monday the 29th of July, 1963, the honorary secretary was informed by the bowman of the life-boat that a small fishing yawl was being towed by a motor boat and they were in...
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Torbay, Devon - At 12.20 a.m. on I4th May, 1967, it was reported that a car had been seen to run over the headland close to the look-out. The life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent slipped her moorings, with the small boarding boat in tow, at...
Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
THE following is a copy of a Circular which has been addressed by the Royal National Life-boat Institution to the local Committees of its several Life-boat Branches on the coasts of the United Kingdom. The Circular explains at length the...
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Mount Ida and Vera Creina
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT CROMER OCT. 9TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At 6.25 in the morning the Cromer coxswain learned through the Humber radio and the coastguard that a vessel had gone ashore on Haisborough Sands, thirteen miles...
Kindly Light
At 9 A.M. on the 9th October the sea was making fast, and one of the fishing boats, the Kindly Light, had not returned from the fishing grounds.
The coastguard stations at Bamburgh, Holy Island and Sea Houses were warned...
R.I.B.S
Newhaven, Sussex - At 2.30 p.m. on 26th July, 1969, the coxswain of the life-boat, while at sea on exercise, received a radio message from the fishing vessel Edith May that the motor boat R.I.B.S., with one man aboard, had broken down 12...
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SICK WOMAN LANDED FROM ISLAND Galway Bay, Co. Galway. At 10.15 p.m. on Thursday the 15th of August, 1963, a nurse on Inishmaan asked that the life-boat take a seriously ill patient to hospital at Rossaveel. At 10.45 the life-boat Mary...
Ros Bui
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 10.40 on the morning of the 15th May, 1961, Valentia radio informed the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Ros Bui of Dublin had broken down three miles north-west of Lemon Rock. At 11.3, when the life-boat...
Leverton
Some people take their pleasure seriously Boat owners who take pleasure seriously, take a very dim view of anything that interrupts their pursuit of happiness.
This simple fact is causing more skippers to choose (AT Marine...
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Your Letters
Reduce the risks Given the antics of condemed yachtsman Eric Abbott who 'navigates' by road maps, isn't it time to formalise some form of mandatory training before people put to sea. This guy shows total contempt for the...
Category: Correspondence