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Book Reviews
• Grahame Farr's The Tubular Lifeboats 1850-1939 is in many ways the most interesting of his papers on lifeboat history. It is available from the author at 98 Combe Avenue, Portishead, Bristol BS20 9JX, price 60p including posting and...
Category: Articles
A Converted Ship's Boat
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 9.10 on the morning of the 14th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a converted ship's boat had been aground all night alongside Barrow Deep lightvessel. Her crew had no petrol for...
A Raft of Races
The team from The Shoulder of Mutton, winners of the award for the pub collecting the most sponsorship in the river Ouse raft race. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Jane Sophia
On the 10th December, the schooner Jane Sophia, of Aberystwith, whilst attempting to cross the Bar before the tide served, struck on the South Bank. It was blowing very hard from N.N.W., and a heavy sea was running at the time. A pilot-boat,...
Life-Belts for Fishermen
IN 1882 the Committee of the Institution, being deeply impressed with the serious loss of life from drowning taking place year by year from the Fishing Vessels working to and from the coasts of the United Kingdom, decided, with the hope of...
Category: Articles
Rosebud
SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. — While the fishing boat Bosebud, of Lowestoft, was being sailed from that place to Lerwick, on the 7th April, by two Shetland fishermen who had just purchased her, she was brought up by stress of weather and had to...
Homeland
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. — At 2.40 in the morning of the 28th of June, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat, which was at anchor in Clanyard Bay, appeared to be in diffi- culties, and the motor life-boat Jeanie Speirs was...
Douglas
Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 8.15 on the morning of the 17th of July, 1956, the Orlock coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore at the Maidens.
At 8.30 the life-boat Sir Samuel Kelly was launched. There was a heavy swell...
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St Agnes Senior Helmsman Gavin Forehead was expecting a routine exercise when he launched with his crew on 16 October 2005 but when they returned just over an hour later, they had saved two livesGavin, Helmsman Rory Bushe, Crew Member James...
Medina
TOW FOR CABIN CRUISER DRIFTING ON TO ROCKS Newbiggin, Northumberland. At 5.58 on the afternoon of the 7th October, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser appeared to be in need of help in Newbiggin Bay, and...