LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Dan Beard, of New Orleans
DECEMBER 10TH. - FISHGUARD, AND ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE. At 4.46 in the afternoon a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel had sent up red flares about seven miles west of Strumble Head. A moderate north-west wind was...
The S.S. Dan Beard, of New Orleans (1)
DECEMBER 10TH. - FISHGUARD, AND ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE. At 4.46 in the afternoon a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel had sent up red flares about seven miles west of Strumble Head. A moderate north-west wind was...
An Aeroplane (53)
JULY 24TH. - PENLEE, CORNWALL.
An unknown bomber was believed to have crashed in the sea as lights were seen on the water after she had passed, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £8 13s. 6d..
Sadler Yachts
The award-winning British 34-footer." Sadler 34. The Sadler 34 is a rather special performance cruiser.
For one thing, she's British through and through.
For another, she's quite unsinkable. A...
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Yachts and Dinghies
A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...
The Motor Fishing Vessels Lead Us, The Golden Hope and Success
LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY AT HARBOUR BAR Whitby, Yorkshire. At 7.45 on the evening of the 2nd March, 1962, the coxswain was in radio communication from his own boat with three local motor fishing vessels, which were at sea in deteriorating weather...
The Life-Boats of the United Kingdom
LXVII. BRIGHTON.— The Robert Bailees, 32 feet by 7} feet, 10 oars.
IT is not our intention here to enter into a description of so well known a town as Brighton, which has been so happily described as "London by the...
Category: Articles
Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
AT the annual meeting of the Committee of this Fund on the 18th January, pre- sided over by Mr. CHARLES G. TURNER, Controller-General of Inland Revenue, Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, hon. secretary, re- ported that during the. year the Fund, which...
Category: Meetings
A Sailing Yacht
Margate, Kent.—At 5.26 on the after- noon of the 15th of July, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that the West- gate Safety Boatman had reported a small sailing yacht capsized about half a mile off shore at Birchington. A man was swimming in...
M.F.V. Ecstasy and M.F.V. Broadside
Escort THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY of Southwold lifeboat station received a request at 1335 on Monday January 31, 1983, for the lifeboat to escort MFV Ecstasy and MFV Broadside to Lowestoft; the weather was too bad for the fishing vessels...