LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Yawls
Between 2 and 3 P.M. on the 24th December, a gale of wind suddenly sprang up from the S.E. by S., and the sea became very rough. Fifteen of the fishing yawls belonging to Arbroath were at sea at the time, and it was deemed advisable to...
Fishing Cobles (3)
—• Owing to the N.E. wind on the 16th March freshening suddenly, and bringing up a heavy sea, two of the fishing cobles were in great danger when at sea for the purpose of hauling their crab pots.
The Coxswain of the...
Obituary
THE committee of management of the Institution deeply regret the loss of two of their colleagues last spring..
Category: Obituaries
Confederate
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—The Aberdeen trawler Confederate stranded on the Scaurs of Cruden, about nine miles south of Peterhead on the morning of the 16th January. On receipt of the news from the coastguard, the motor life-boat Duke of...
Five Life-Boat Broadcasts
THE British Broadcasting Corporation took the opportunity of the visit of life-boatmen to London for the annual meeting to put the life-boat service on the air. There were four broadcasts that week, and a fifth three weeks...
Category: Articles
Fishing Boats
Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 2.45 on the afternoon of the 4th April, 1961, the harbour master informed the honorary secretary that six local fishing boats were still at sea. At 3.15, when the life- boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield II was...
None (1)
Galway Bay, Co. Galway.—At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 21st of February, 1957, the local doctor asked if the life-boat could be launched to take a patient urgently needing hospital treatment to the mainland. At 12.45 the life-boat Mabel...
Firth Fisher
SEAMAN LANDED Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. At 11.55 a.m. on 23rd May, 1964, the coastguard told the chairman of the branch committee that the motor vessel Firth Fisher was heading for Portpatrick with an injured seaman aboard. A doctor, who...
Helicopter Board
The R.N.L.I. has accepted the offer of honorary membership of the British Helicopter Advisory Board at Redhill, Surrey..
Category: Articles
Evening Star
Arbroath, Angus - At 1.33 p.m. oa 9th April, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing boat Evening Star was lying off the harbour. At 1.45 the life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn, on temporary duty at the...