LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Some Fishery Statistics
In the first Number of this Journal we showed the intimate connexion between fishermen and life-boats, and stated that in the fisheries of the United Kingdom there were employed on the 1st January, 1850, the large number of 36,000 boats,...
Category: Articles
Haab (1)
LYDD AND NEW ROMNEY, KENT.—On the morning of the 25th November, during a fresh gale from the W.S.W., and a heavy sea, the barque Haab, of Moss, Norway, bound from New York to Rotterdam, with a cargo of grain, grounded on the outer end of the...
Rnli News
Open Days The Open Days at the RNLI's Poole Headquarters and Depot, which were postponed from last year due to building work, have been scheduled for August.
Both sites, including the new building, will be open on...
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Provider A, Easier Morn, Gem, Venus and Enterprise
Whitby, Yorkshire.—In the morning of the 26th of April, 1949, there was a heavy swell at the harbour entrance that would endanger the return of the fishing boats. When five were seen approaching two members of the harbour pulling...
Several Fishing Boats
A little before nightfall on the 29th September, several fishing- boats belonging to this place were over- taken by a heavy gale of wind. They were seen from the shore making for Craigenrow Bay, ten miles east of Buckie, where they took...
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Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Society
A MEETING of the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Society was held at their offices, Hibernian Chambers, London Bridge, on the 26th February last, His Grace the Duke of MARLBOROUGH, President, in the chair, the following members of...
Category: Meetings
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Galway Bay. At 5.30 p.m. on i8th February, 1966, the local medical officer of health informed the honorary secretary that he had taken a woman patient from Inishmaan Island to Kilronan in a small fishing boat, but due to weather conditions...
Marion
Scarborough, Yorkshire. On the 1st of November, 1960, a south-easterly gale was blowing and conditions at the harbour entrance were very bad. As two fishing boats were still at sea, it was decided to launch the life-boat so that she could...
Nimrod
The barqueNimrod, of Liverpool, was seen to be burning flares on the Holm Sand at 7.30 P.M. on the 18th November, during a gale of wind from the S. and a high sea. The No. 1 Life-boat Two Sisters, Mary and Hannah, was launched, proceeded to...