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The Lifeboat Service - Past and Present
725 Years Ago The following item was first published in THE LIFEBOAT of January, 1861.
VALUE OF BAROMETRICAL INDICATION.
ON the occasion of the hurricane which swept the island of St. Kilda, in the...
Category: Articles
The Fishery Patrol Vessel Switha
Patrol vessel holed IN EASTERLY GALES early on Thursday January 31, 1980, fishery patrol vessel Switha, bound for Leith, ran aground on the rocks near Herwit Buoy in the Firth of Forth, a mile south east of Inchkeith Island. She was holed...
Death of Life-Boatman
WHEN an explosion wrecked their fishing boat off the South Devon coast on I5th June, 1967, one of the two men lost was Mr. Francois L. Janssens, of Brixham, who was a regular crew member of the Torbay life-boat. His father, Mr. Albert...
Category: Obituaries
An Aeroplane (6)
MAY 9TH.. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
An aeroplane had crashed into the sea off the Lincolnshire coast, but only wreckage was found. Two shoreboats also took part in the search. (See “ Services by Shoreboats,” Mablethorpe,...
A Yacht
MAY 12TH. - DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.
A small yacht which had left the Cumberland coast for the Isle of Man was overdue, but got into Douglas without help. - Rewards, £9 1s..
Bittern
During a heavy gale from S.W.
on the 22nd April the yacht Bittern, of Berwick, was observed being rapidly driven seawards. The gale was increas- ing in violence, and it was considered necessary to launch the Life-boat to...
Pilot Me & The Royal Empire
Early on the morning of the 19th January several fishing boats put off, the weather at the time being fine, and the wind westerly. Later on the wind changed to the north and blew a gale, and the sea got up and broke heavily off the harbour...
Penguin
St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly— On the evening of the 15th August the secretary of the station was out fishing near Crehewethan, with his son and a friend, in the motor boat Penguin. The engine broke'down, and owing to the strong ebb...
Come Away
YACHT MISSING FOR THREE DAYS Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
At 12.5 on the afternoon of the llth August, 1962, the coastguard telephoned the honorary secretary to discuss the possibility of searching for the yacht...
Flamingo, of Stavanger
Longhope, Orkneys, and Wick, Caithness-shire - At 11.27 a.m. on 26th January, 1967, it was learned that a vessel was transmitting a Mayday call off Pentland Skerries. The Longhope life-boat T.G.B. was launched at 11.45 in a strong east by...