LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
John A. Harvie
CARNSORE, Co. WEXFOBD.—On the night of the 26th November intelligence reached this Life-boat station that a ship was in distress about two miles and a half to the westward of Kilmore, which is twelve miles from Carnsore. Without loss of time...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's 44' Waveney Lifeboat Khami Was Launched In a Near Gale on Sunday August 22 to Go to the Help of American Yacht Sonata Taking Water
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's 44' Waveney lifeboat Khami was launched in a near gale on Sunday, August 22, to go to the help of American yacht Sonata, taking water four miles south of Cross Sand Lightvessel. Sonata got the leak... - View image in PDF
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Contents
Notes of the Quarter by the Editor . . .. . . .. . . .. . . . . 442 International Boat Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444 Technical Developments in the Life-boat Service by Commander F. R. H. Swann . . . . 446 New Year Honours ...
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Fishing Boats (1)
Early on the 2nd December eleven fishing boats put out to fish in moderate weather. Later the wind and sea rose, and as there would be great risk to the boats as they came in, the motor life-boat Margaret Harker Smith was launched at 11.10 A...
ALL SHOOK UP
Lifeboat volunteers faced an exhausting 12-hour shift when a yachtsman was stranded 50 miles off the coast in appalling weather
It was just before 8am and the start of a blustery August weekend in Castletownbere. Coxswain...
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Classified Advertisements
Classified Advertisements Entries undei ACCOMMODATION are offered at the special rate of £6.00 for up to 50 words, including address and phone number. Additional words at 20p each.
Other Classifications are at 20p per...
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A Seafire Aircraft
Clogher Head, Co. Louth; and Howth, Co. Dublin.—At 3.40 on the afternoon of the 22nd of May, 1953, the Air Control Officer, Irish Air Corps, at Baldonnell rang up the Clogher Head life-boat station to say that a Seafire aircraft of the Irish...
Providence
SCARBOROUGH.—On the 3rd August, during a S.E. gale, the fishing yawl Providence, of Lowestoft, went ashore in the bay at low water. In order to save the vessel from being destroyed, when the tide arose Jhe Life-boat Lady Leigh was launched,...
Trials for Two
An investigation, by instrument and direct observation, into hull sea-keeping ability at high speed in rough water and the resultant fatigue experienced by man and machinery 50' Thames class prototype and 52' Arun Mk, II off...
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Round Britain By Irb
THE rigid inflatable Psychedelic Surfer gained a certain amount of publicity in the Round Britain Power Boat race and was, I hear, looked at by some of our IRB crews at the various stopping points around the coast.
When I...
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