LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ben Bhrackie
Aith, Shetlands. At 12.54 on the afternoon of the 25th of March, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a member of the crew of the trawler Ben Bhrackie of Aberdeen, which was then twenty-five miles north of Vee Skerries,...
News
A new boat on the coastA new lifeboat will enter the RNLI's fleet of lifeboats in 2003. The untrained eye may not be able to spot any difference between the new boat and the one it will replace, but the changes that have been made will...
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Heiloo
HELP FOR DUTCH VESSEL At 7.24 p.m. on I7th November, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Dutch motor vessel Heiloo, of Flushing, was aground on the Knoll Sands. There was a gale from the southsouth- west with a...
Annie Scot, of Arbroath
On the 30th November, the barque Annie Scott, of Arbroath, was stranded during a strong wind and hazy weather on the Cross Sand, off the Norfolk coast. The same life-boat went off and succeeded in saving the vessel's crew of 9 men. They...
Bridge
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 8.35 on the evening of the 1st of August, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secre- tary that a small yacht was aground on the Barrow Sands. A helicopter took off and at 8.55 the life-boat Greater London II...
A Book for Review
THE first in a series of books which will undoubtedly become standard works on the history of the Cornish fife-boats. Wreck and Rescue Round the Cornish Coast by Cyril Noall and Grahame Farr (D. Bradford Barton, 2is.), is both an admirable...
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A Sailing Yacht
YACHT GUIDED TO HARBOUR IN POOR VISIBILITY Margate, Kent. At 9.23 on the evening of the 3rd August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Whitstable harbour master had reported that a small yacht had capsized a...
Resolute, of Peterhead, and Brig A. E. M., of Nantes
At 5 P.M. on the 12th March, when blowing a strong gale from the N., the schooner Resolute, of Peterhead, and brig A. E. M., of Nantes, went ashore on the north-west part of the Goodwin Sands.
The steam-tug Vulcan and Life...
A Firefly Aircraft
St. Ives, and Sennen Cove, Cornwall.— At 8.53 on the evening of the 24th of January, 1955, the St. Ives coastguard rang up the St. Ives life-boat station to say that a Firefly aircraft had crashed, and that men had been seen in a rubber...
Life-Preservers
[NT the Times newspaper of the 20th of February last, we read the following narration of a deplorable occurrence by which industrious men were deprived of life, and their families, all in indigent circumstances, left in sorrow to struggle...
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