LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Allegrity
Fahnouth, Cornwall. At 6.30 on the morning of the 13th December, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares were seen off Greek Point. There was a strong south- south-west wind blowing, and the sea was rough. At...
Silver Medal Service
A cargo ship on passage to Egypt got into trouble off the Devon coast in heavy seas and gale force winds when her 5,260-tonne load of timber shifted, causing a severe list.
Salcombe and Torbay’s all-weather lifeboats...
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Fishing Yawls
FRASERBURGH.—The Life-boat Anna Maria Lee was launched at 1 P.M. on the 12th January, a telegram having beenreceived from Pitullie stating that four fishing yawls which had left that place in the morning were unable to return owing to a...
Fidelity
Fishermen plucked to safety from vessel in danger of capsize Coxswain John C. Murray of Buckle lifeboat station has been congratulated on the 'leadership, determination and skill' he displayed during a service to the fishing vessel...
Income and Expenditure for 1949
1948 £ *. d.
148,673 4 1 360 4 2 .47,180 13 3 143 7 11 32,729 2 1 14,801 14 7 1,039 17 11 2,010 4 6 246,938 8 6 20,782 15 - 41 - - 2,165 17 6 2,652 4 6 1,816 6 5 181 2 6 27,639 5 11 27,042 18 8 23,516 4 7 198 18 10...
Category: Accounts
Poole Open Days July 22-24
LAST JULY, for the first time in its history and as one of its contributions to Maritime England Year, the Institution opened its head office and depot at Poole to the public. It was an entirely new departure which provided a unique...
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Your shout
Some of my best and most exciting memories have been stirred by your feature Then and Now.
Then: I lived in Hastings as a small girl in the 1950s, and remember the sound of the maroon followed by the footsteps of Coxswain...
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Esperance
TYRELLA.—During a S.S.E. wind with showers of sleet and a very heavy sea, on the 24th January, the barque Esperance, of St. Malo, bound from Cadiz for Belfast with teak, stranded in Dundrum Bay.
The crew of the Memorial...
Sailor King
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 3.19 P.M.
on the 3rd July, 1938, the coastguard reported that a herring drifter had gone ashore on Proudfoot Rock, on the north side of Wick Bay. She was the Sailor King, of Lowestoft, bound for...
Books
Books First of the flood By Fred Normandale Published by Bottom End Publishing ISBN 0954368606 Price £11.75 paperback Now Lifeboat Operations Manager at Scarborough, Fred Normandale grew up as part of the fishing community in the...
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