LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Focus on . . . . Angle
Over the water from Milford Haven, where the tall chimneys of the oil refineries belch out their smoke, lies the small village of Angle, a village of about 200 inhabitants, a village which the Industrial Revolution seems almost to have...
Category: Articles
H.M. Motor Launch E.C. 83
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At four in the afternoon of the 19th of March, 1952, the Foreland coastguard tele- phoned that a naval motor launch had run ashore at Black Rock, Whitecliff Bay, and at 4.13 the life-boat Milburn, on temporary duty...
Brookes & Gatehouse Ltd
Over fifty R.N.L.I.
life-boats are now equipped with HECTA echo sounders The HECTA Echo-sounder is designed for indefinite use in open cockpits. Its simple meter-type display provides a very clear indication of depth in...
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Capsize WEXFORD GARDA informed the honorary secretary of Kilmore Quay lifeboat station at 0115 on Saturday, December 24, 1977, that four red flares had been sighted off Bannow Bay towards the Saltees. At 0130 maroons were fired by the...
Rugged In the Extreme Caithness Lifeboat Stations: Thurso and Wick By Joan Davies
In winter, on ten to fifteen days out of every month, winds will blow at force 7 or above around the north-eastern tip of Scotland. The waters of the Pentland and Moray Firths are some of the most notorious in the world. The mainland...
Category: Articles
Two Brave Boys. Award of Vellums at Worthing
THE Institution's Thanks inscribed on Vellum have been presented to two boys of Worthing, Eric Mundell and Stanley A. Darkin, both aged fifteen, for rescuing two lives from shipwreck at great risk to themselves. On the morning of 2nd...
Category: Articles
At the Sharp End
• Wo matter how experienced and well prepared you are every small-boat sailor knows that problems can still arise seemingly out of the blue. This was some consolation to the RNLI's own Chief of Operations during the Round the Island Race...
Category: Services
Two Admiralty Trawlers (1)
DECEMBER 28TH. - SALCOMBE, AND TORBAY, DEVON. Two Admiralty trawlers had been reported in difficulties about fifteen miles in an easterly direction from Start Point, but one took the other in tow and the life-boats were recalled. - Rewards,...
Souris
YACHT AGROUND At 4.55 p.m. on 3rd April, 1966, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht had been reported to be aground on the Pye Sands, about half a mile outside the mouth of the river. The honorary secretary then telephoned...
New Ways of Raising Money
A 'heady' tradition was upheld in double measure at Aberdeen in May when the maiden catch of the Shetland seine-net boat Evening Star was auctioned.
Traditionally, the buyer of the first box offish from a maiden...
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