LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Kingfisher
At 11.30 A.M. on llth March, during a moderate E.S.E. gale, with a rough sea, it was decided to launch the Motor Life- boat Herbert Joy II. as two motor cobles were out crab fishing. The Life-boat found one of the cobles—the Kingfisher, of...
A Salmon Yawl
Youghal, Co. Cork. While the lifeboat coxswain was fishing off Blackball Head on the afternoon of I5th June, 1965,, he noticed that a salmon yawl was in difficulties and being swept seawards. The coxswain returned to harbour, mustered the...
Loud Hailers & Wireless
Other plans for the immediate future are improved caterpillar tractors and carriages for launching, loud-hailers in a hundred life-boats of the larger types, and watertight wireless sets, so that all life-boats, and not only those, as at...
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Aberdovey, Merionethshire. At 9.15 p.m. on 9th October, 1965, the police reported that three wildfowlers were stranded on the south bank of the estuary.
At 9.30 the IRB launched on an ebbing tide in a south easterly gale...
John Wesley
HARTLEPOOL.—Shortly before 4 o'clock on the morning of the 23rd September, while a gale from the S.S.E. was blowing, accompanied by a very heavy sea, the brigantine John, Wesley, of Seaham, bound from Seaham to London with a cargo of...
Vanadia
New Brighton, Cheshire. — At 7.40 in the morning of the 22nd of October, 1951, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that a motor yacht was in a dangerous place inside the revetment on the south side of the Queen's Channel near the Formby...
Polar Star
Margate, Kent.—At 4.9 on the after- noon of the llth of August, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that a yacht alongside the Tongue lightvessel needed help. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched at 4.23. There...
The Motor Fishing Boats Venture and Undaunted
MORE FISHING BOATS IN PERIL Thurso, Caithness-shire.—Just before midnight on the night of the 25th of April, 1947, anxiety was felt for the safety of the local motor fishing boats Venture and Undaunted which had not returned. A strong...
Yacht Little Genna
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 2.58 on the afternoon of the 31st of August, 1952, a message was received from the Palace Pier, Brighton, that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties off Brighton, and at 3.12 the life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis...
Book Reviews
• In Small Boat Navigation (Stanley Paul, £2.25), Lt-Commander Pat Hepherd covers a great deal of this wide subject clearly and at times lightheartedly.
To the completely inexperienced reader some of the information...
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