LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Boats (1)
NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND. — At about 7 o'clock on the morning of the 3rd February, the fishing-boats went out and shot their lines. At 10.30 a strong gale from the N. sprung up, rendering it difficult for the boats to haul in their...
Two Cobles
During a strong westerly gale and rough sea on | the 28th January two cobles were j observed in the bay, one coble towing j the other. As the weather was very : bad the Life-boat Cape of Good Hope : was launched and proceeded to the disabled...
A Sailing Dinghy (1)
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 12.05 p.m. on 25th July, 1965, a sailing dinghy, with two people on board, capsized in Peterhead Bay. At 12.20 the life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was launched in a gentle north-westerly breeze and smooth...
Book Review
0 In Power Boats in Rough Seas (Adlard Coles Ltd., £4.25) Dag Pike has taken a sharp, discerning look at the factors affecting the seaworthiness and safety of power boats and described them in concise, seamanlike terms. Whatever...
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A Harbour Tug
HARBOUR TUG TAKEN IN TOW Cloughey, Co. Down. At 10.4 on the morning of the 23rd June, 1963, the motor mechanic informed the honorary secretary that he had seen a man waving some clothing from a boat in Cloughey Bay. The life-boat Constance...
Fishing Boats (1)
Broughty Ferry, Angus.—At 5.7 on the evening of the 9th of February, 1953, the Carnoustie coastguard telephoned that the Arbroath coastguard had asked if the life-boat would escort four Arbroath fishing boats into...
A Yacht
Broken rudder A YACHT in trouble to the south of the Calf Islands, off the southern Irish coast, was firing red flares. They were sighted and reported to the honorary secretary of Baltimore lifeboat station at 1320 on the afternoon of Friday...
Alice
DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.—The John Turner Turner Life-boat was launched at 3.30 A.M. on the 6th November, and brought ashore the crew, consisting of two men, of the smack Alice, of and from Dinorwic, for Douglas, with slates, which was dragging...
The Duke of Edinburgh Merchant Seamen
WE notice with pleasure that growing interest by public men in the concerns of the seamen of the country, which is always one of the signs indicative of the importance of any particular matter be-ginning to be realised by the nation at large...
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AUGUST 27TH. - BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND. A boy had been reported floating out to sea on an air cushion, but what had been seen was a floating log.- Rewards, £5 1s..