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Seaside singing
The Falmouth International Sea Shanty Festival took place in June, with 23 groups from around Europe taking part. The event is one of the world’s biggest maritime music festivals, and one of its main aims is to raise money for the...
Category: Articles
Seaman's Cartoonist Extraordinary Carl Giles Receiving His Lifeboatman Statuette for Outstanding Service to the Rnli In the Field of Public Relations from the Duke of Atholl
Seaman's Cartoonist extraordinary, Carl Giles, receiving his lifeboatman statuette for outstanding service to the RNLI in the field of public relations from the Duke of Atholl.
photograph by courtesy of the 'Daily... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Inchworm
LOST PROPELLER Margate, Kent. At 7.7 p.m. on 9th October, 1963, the pilot office at Margate told the honorary secretary that a boat was flashing a light near Foreness Point.
The coastguard was informed of the incident, and...
Border King
IN ROUGH SEA Thurso, Caithness-shire. At one minute past midnight on 9th November, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the motor fishing vessel Border King that her engine had broken...
New Skylark
APRIL 17TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT.
During the afternoon the naval base reported a fishing boat in difficulties off Foreness Point, and the motor life-boat Agnes Cross, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 3.50 P.M....
Rosa
The steam trawler Bosa, of Montrose, in attempt- ing to cross the bar at low water, on the morning of the 4th August, was struck by a heavy sea, and having taken a sheer, stranded on the Annat Bank. There was a very heavy cross sea at the...
People and Places
In appreciation...
Back in September 1992 Andrew McDonald was sailing his father's yacht Whisky Mac when she ran into trouble near the Channel Islands - see The Lifeboat, Winter 1992/3 - and the Alderney lifeboat was...
Category: Articles
Reviews of Books
" Losses at Sea: their Causes and Means of Prevention, embracing several other subjects of importance for the Safe Navigation of Vessels." By J. H. RIDLEY, Master in the Merchant Service. London, published for the Author, 1854....
Category: Articles
Lily
Whitby, Yorkshire.—The motor fishing coble Lily left harbour at 7 A.M. on the 19th April to haul crab pots. Later on the wind freshened considerably, and when the coble was seen making for home a strong N.W. breeze was blowing, with a...