LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two French Fishing Smacks
On the 31st De- cember, two French fishing-smacks were seen driving out of Dungeness Roads down on a lee-shore, off Dymchurch. The wind was blowing a strong gale from the S.W.
The Dungeness life-boat, the Providence, was...
Fishing Cobles (1)
Five of the small fishing cobles were overtaken by a strong N.E. gale when out for the purpose of obtaining their crab pots on the 17th March. They at once aban- doned their fishing and returned to port.
The weather was...
Adalina
Soon after mid- day on the 28th April, during a S.W.
gale accompanied by a rough sea, it was reported that a vessel was ashore on the Goodwins. The Life-boat Brad- ford proceeded to the Sands and found the fishing vessel...
A Small Boat
Teignmouth, Devon.—At 3.25 P.M. on the 17th March the coastguard reported that a small boat, with one man on board, had been carried out of the harbour by the strong ebb tide, and was in difficulty. A strong S.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a...
Cameo
Wicklow, County Wicklow. — On the 10th of September, 1950, the Wicklow life-boat rescued the crew of eleven of the M.V. Cameo of Glasgow.—Rewards, to Coxswain Edward Kavanagh, the bronze medal for gallantry; to motor mechanic J. Bonus, the...
Grace Stuart
Girvan, Ayrshire.—At 3.15 in the afternoon, on the 19th of January, 1951, the coxswain saw the local motor fishing boat Grace Stuart approaching the har- bour. There was a heavy sea across the bar with a north-westerly breeze, and...
Harvest Hope
Longhope, Orkneys.—At 1.57 on the morning of the 1st of June, 1951, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that the fishing vessel Harvest Hope, of Lerwick, had run ashore south-south- west of Copinsay; and at 2.35 the life-boat Thomas McCunn...
Fishing Boats
Wells, Norfolk.—About 10.0 on the morning of the 4th of July, 1951, a gale sprang up from the north-east and the sea became very rough. Nine local fishing boats were at sea, and it was thought advisable for the life- boat to stand by them....
Fishing Boats
Anstruther, Fifeshire.—Oil the after- noon of the 3rd of January, 1955, the wind freshened, and at 4.15 the coast- guard telephoned that several fishing boats from Pittenweem were lying off the harbour, waiting for the tide to rise...
Cornel
Tenby, Pembrokeshire, and Minehead, Somerset.—At 7.40 on the morning of the 22nd of December, 1955, the Tenby coastguard rang up the Tenby life-boat station to say that the motor vessel Cornel, of Cardiff, bound for Bristol with a cargo of...