LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Towing Life-Boats In Rough Weather
IN consequence of more than one of the lifeboats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION having upset and broken adrift when in tow, through being to«red without any one on board to steer them, the following Instructions have been...
Category: Articles
Fishing Boats
OCTOBER 2 2ND. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. Shortly before noon the sea became heavy, with an easterly wind blowing.
A number of fishing boats were making for harbour and the motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched at noon...
Racing Sailing Dinghies
Three lifeboats save six people from devastated dinghy_raceII three of Southend-on-Sea's inshore lifeboats were at sea on 3 January this year when rapidly deteriorating conditions devastated a fleet of racing sailing...
Comitas
Whitby, Runswick, Redcar and Tees- mouth, Yorkshire.—On the afternoon of the 27th October the Italian steamer Comitas, of Genoa, left the Tees to go to Hartlepool for cargo. A strong north-westerly gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea,...
Victory
On the 4th November, when the local motor fishing boat Victory was at sea, the weather broke and freshened with a gale from the eastward. A heavy sea was run- ning. A watch was kept, and at 1.30 P.M., when the Victory was seen in the offing,...
Emerald Isle
HOWTH, Co. DUBLIN. — On the 29th March, at about 5.15 P.M., during a fresh W. gale and a heavy sea, the coxswain of the Life-boat being on watch at the Coastguard Station, observed a small vessel drag her anchors and go ashore on Ireland'...
Paula Bertha
About 8 A.M.
on the 1st September the Coastguard gave information to the Coxswain of the No. 1 Life-boat, Samuel Plimsoll, that a vessel was aground on the Holm Sand.
He promptly mustered his crew, and...
Fishing Cobles
CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND. On the morning of the 15th April seventeen of the fishing cobles were out, chiefly engaged with the crab pots, when the sea began to rise. Six of the boats returned before the sea leached its height, one of these...
Coxswain Adam Mcleod, Thurso
Coxswain Adam McLeod, of Thurso, who died in June of this year, had then been coxswain for two years, and had previously been second coxswain for thirteen years. During those fifteen years the Thurso life-boats had rescued 117 lives. When...
Category: Obituaries
Gaia
Sheringham, Norfolk.—At 8.50 in the morning, on the llth of September, 1950, the Cromer coastguard telephonedthat the Dudgeon lightvessel had re- ported a sailing yacht circling the light- vessel in need of help. Accordingly, at 9.5 the life...