LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Twelfth International Lifeboat Conference By Patrick Howarth
'Most of our problems are common — let us solve them together' by Patrick Howarth THE CITY OF HELSINKI became associated with international conferences in the minds of millions in July of this year through the great assembly of...
Category: Meetings
Shoreline
THOSE OF OUR MEMBERS who are lucky enough to be boat owners will no doubt be enjoying the start of the season with, this year, its unusually warm and sunny spring weekends. We wish you good sailing.
Now that the membership...
Category: Articles
Bookshelf
Four more volumes from Jeff Morris, the Honorary Archivist of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts' Society, chronicling the life and times of various lifeboat stations - this time taking in three stations in England and one in...
Category: Articles
Fishing Boats (4)
MCH. 28TH. - ANSTRUTHER, FIFESHIRE. At 6.15AM. a message was received from the Anstruther coastguard that there was a heavy swell at the harbour entrance and that the fishing fleet was returning.
A moderate E.S.E. gale was...
Urgent
At daybreak on the 24th October, 1872, the Urgent, a barge, becoming unnavigable when off Jury's Gap, hoisted signals of distress, and commenced firing minute guns. It was blowing hard from the S.S.W., and a heavy sea was running; so...
Letters
Twenty years after...
• The date September 19, 1954 is indelibly written in my mind and may perhaps strike a chord with you. For my part I was one of the crew of the good ship Nicky which went aground on the Mere Rocks.<...
Category: Correspondence
True
On the 13th January, at about 7 P.M., it having been reported that a vessel was ashore at Porto Bello, about 4 miles distant from Newhaven, the Life-boat went to her assistance. A light S.S.W. wind was blowing at the time, and the weather...
A Sailing Boat
Moelfre, Anglesey.—On the 5th of August, 1957, the life-boat Watkin Williams took part in a combined helicopter and life-boat exercise. At the end of the exercise a strong easterly wind sprang up, with a very rough sea, and it was impossible...
Nanta
CAHORE.—It was blowing a heavy storm from the S.E. on the 18th January, when the barque Nanta, of Lussino, bound from Glasgow to Trieste, was observed ashore on the Rusk Bank off the coast of Wexford.
The Life-boat Sir...
Regal
At 9.20 P.M. on the 3rd February signals of distress were heard from the Long- stone Lighthouse, and steps were immediately taken to launch the Life- boat Forster Fawsett. Owing to the state of the tide and the muddy nature of the shore very...