LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Viola
On the 31st October the steam drifter Viola, of Banff, ran ashore on Scroby Sands when returning to Yarmouth from the fishing grounds.
An increasing N.N.E. wind was blow- ing and the sea was heavy on the sands.
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Climber falls THREE YOUTHS WERE CLIMBING down the cliff at Wylfa Headland on Wednesday, April 13, when a peg pulled out of the cliff and one of the boys fell about 35 feet into the sea, striking the cliff face and a submerged rock on his way...
A Yacht
YACHT ADRIFT IN ROUGH SEA Margate, Kent.—At 10.46 in the morn- in of the 20th of September, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that a Nor- wegian steamer had reported through the North Foreland Radio Station that three men were adrift in a...
A Motor Fishing Vessel
NOVEMBER 4TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. A motor fishing vessel had been drifting, but was taken in tow by a tug. - Rewards, £9 6s..
Respect
At 4.20 on the afternoon of 15th December the Pulling and Sailing Life-boat Lizzie Porter was launched in charge of the Second Coxswain, as the fishing boat Respect, of Seahouses, manned by the'Life-boat Coxswain and three other men, had...
Lifeboat Services (From Page 263)
Lifeboat Services (from page 263) the whaleboat which had drifted further to leeward to within about 100' from the cliffs near the Cote du Nord hotel.
His crew managed to get a grapnel into the whaleboat and they towed...
Category: Services
A Steamer (3)
Anstruther, Fifeshire— 16th December.
A steamer had grounded in West Bay, Elie, but the life-boat found the crew being rescued by the coastguard's lifesaving apparatus.—Rewards, £14 Os. 6d..
Review
'' Ships for All." By Frank C. Bowen (late Captain Royal Marines). Ward, Lock & Co'., Ltd., 6s'. net.
WHAT English boy or girl—and might we not add man or woman ?—does not take an interest in "...
Category: Articles
The Sailing Boat Venture
Skegness, Lincolnshire. — During the evening of the 8th of June, 1948, the coxswain had under. observation the local sailing boat Venture, which had put out with three men and a boy. The breeze from the north-north-west was light, and the...
Kathleen Claire
At 7.15 P.M. on the 9th June a mes- sage was received by telephone from the Civic Guards at Curracloe that a fishing boat was in distress in the North Bay.
The Motor Life-boat K.E.C.F. put out in a moderate S.S.W. breeze...