LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Boats
TROUBLE ON THE BAR At 10.50 a.m. on 2yth January, 1965, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that one of the fishing fleet had encountered a heavy swell on the harbour bar when returning from the fishing grounds. As the weather was...
Provider A, Success, Lead Us and Pilot Me
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 2.20 on the afternoon of the 14th of November, 1956, the skipper of the fishing boat Provider A reported that there were heavy seas on the harbour bar and that his own vessel had had great difficulty in reaching the...
Star of Peace and Mary Ann
WHITBY.—Two fishing-cobles belonging to this port, the Star of Peace and the Mary Ann, were observed to be making for the harbour on the evening of the 27th July. On account of the heavy sea and the ebb tide running out it was seen that...
Fishing Boats (4)
Whitby, Yorkshire. On the morning of the 29th December, 1961, the local fish- ing fleet were at sea in weather which was growing worse. A heavy ground swell was making the harbour bar very dangerous, and it was decided to launch the...
Life-Boat In the Lord Mayor's Show
THE Institution was represented in the Lord Mayor's Show, on 10th November, by a Life-boat and crew drawn by atractor. The description as it appeared in the programme of the show was :—• " The Ellen & Margaret of Seattle...
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INJURED TEEN REACHES SAFETY
TENBY | 9 APRIL
Tenby all-weather lifeboat crew raced to the aid of a 14-year-old girl, who had fallen on rocks at Barafundle Beach. Suffering suspected back and neck injuries, including a broken...
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Pyrene Co. Ltd
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Hope Crest
ump passed to sinking fishing boat in gale and heavy seas Coxswain Albert Sutherland and the crew of the Fraserburgh lifeboat took over three hours to battle through the 10-12m seas and a full south easterly gale to reach the fishing vessel...
A Life-Boat Crew at Stockport
THIS year marks the twenty-fifth anni- versary of the formation of the Stock- port crew of life-boat auxiliaries. In 1936 three young men were asked to collect on Stockport life-boat day. The following year they were asked again and with a...
Category: Donations
A Broadcast History of the Life-Boat Service
AN hour's programme on the Life-boat Service was broadcast by the B.B.C.
in its Home Service on- Sunday, the •23rd of November, under the title "On Life-saving Service." It told the story of the Service from...
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