LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
December
Launches 61. Lives rescued 79.
DECEMBER 1ST. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
While the fishing fleet was out the northerly wind increased until it was blowing strongly, with squalls, bringing a rough sea, which...
Category: Services
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
CARNSORE, Co. WEXFORD.—The 30-feet 6-oared Life-boat placed here some years since was found to be not powerful enough for service to vessels on the dangerous outlying rocks off this coast known as the "Tuskar," and the NATIONAL...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.—The Life-boat stationed in 1868 at Boss Links, Holy Island, has recently been replaced by a new one, 31 feet long, 7£ feet wide and towing 10 oars, double banked. It possesses all the latest improvements, as...
Category: Articles
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Category: Advertisement
Lleyn Peninsula: Abersoch Criccieth Porthdinllaen and Pwllheli By Joan Davies
JUTTING OUT boldly into the Irish Sea, open to winter gales from most points of the compass, the beautiful Lleyn Peninsula of North Wales has its share of hazards to shipping. Over the years many vessels have been wrecked on its shores and...
Category: Articles
Thoughts on the Art of Street Collecting By Clive Porter Second Coxswain Teesmouth Life-Boat
THERE is an art in most things, and carrying a collecting tin for the R.N.L.I.
can be of great interest. Nothing could be more absorbing than spending a day in the street persuading the public that our cause is worth...
Category: Articles
People and Places
Keeping it in the family! Stephen Simmons, new recruit of Sheringham lifeboat crew, not only has all the skills required to be a lifeboatman but also has lifesaving in his blood - he joins his father, the helmsman of the lifeboat, and elder...
Category: Articles
A Yacht (1)
Sheringham, Norfolk. At 4.5 on the afternoon of the 9th August, 1961, the coastguard told the honorary secretary there was a small yacht in difficulties off Sparrow Gap, Weybourne, and that there were three young men on...
She's A Lady (1)
Cromer and Sheringham, Norfolk- At 6 p.m. on 30th June, 1968, the honorary secretary of the Cromer lifeboat station was told that a small boat was in difficulties off Sheringham beach. The life-boat Ruby and Arthur Reed was launched at 6.12....
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INEXPERIENCED YACHTSMEN IN DAMAGED BOAT Sheringham, Norfolk. At 10.5 on the morning of Wednesday, 21st August, 1963, a fisherman returning from crabbing in squally weather with poor visibility and light wind from the west-north-west reported...