LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Small Boat (1)
On the evening of the 15th August news was received that a small boat with a man and a woman on board had been seen in difficulties, drifting with the tide through Calf Sound. The honorary secretary engaged a motor boat and went in search...
Fishing Boats (2)
Bridlington, Yorkshire. On the 12th of May, 1960, nine local motor fishing boats put to sea at four o'clock in the morning to enable the fishermen to attend to their crab pots. A fresh easter- ly wind was blowing, and during the morning...
£120 from Exmoor Shepherds
THE honorary secretary of the Minehead branch writes: "You may be interested to know that a friend of mine—the licensee of a small hotel in a remote spot on Exmoor—assisted by local shepherds, last September organised some sheep- dog...
Category: Donations
Excel
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— During the evening of the 17th August, 1939, a message was received from the coastguard that the steam drifter Excel IV was aground on Gun Rock, Fame Islands. A light S.E. breeze was blowing. The sea was...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal
SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
PATRONS HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, K..8.
VICE PATRONESS-THE PRINCESS OF WALES.
DUKE OF EDINBURGH, K.Q.
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Category: Advertisement
Book Corner
• Much in demand in recent years but soon out of print after its appearance in 1958, Cyril Jolly's book HenryBlogg ofCromer (George Harrap.
£1.90) has been reprinted with the usual...
Category: Articles
None (1)
COXSWAIN DIVES FOR BOY IN a life-saving service at St. Ives, Cornwall, on 26th July, 1972, Coxswain Thomas Cocking, who had been taken to the scene by motor launch ahead of the ILB, dived overboard to assist a boy who was in...
Fishing Boats
On 26th February a fierce gale from the S.E. sprang up at Bridlington, and the sea rose rapidly, making it very difficult and dangerous for the fishing fleet to return to harbour. The piers were buried under the heavy seas, and the spray was...
Lock Garve
Immediately after returning from another call on the night of the 1st November the Life- boat Charles and Susanna Stephens was dispatched to the assistance of another vessel which was in distress on the south part of the Brake Sands. A...
Fishing Cobles (1)
On the 1st March the Life-boat was again launched to the help of distressed fishing-boats. Between twenty and thirty of them were out when a strong gale sprang up from the S. by E., with a rough sea, and they all returned with the exception...