LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Engine room fire THE TRAWLER St Patrick reported to the Coastguard Channel Navigation Service on channel 10 VHP at 1805 on Wednesday December 7, 1977, that she was hove to with smoke coming from the engine room five miles south east of Dover...

MARGATE AND CLACTON-ON-SEA.—On the morning of the 26th January, while a strong gale was blowing from N.N.E.

accompanied by a heavy sea, the Margate boatmen observed a large vessel apparently in dangerously close proximity...

Soul searching There was extensive national and local TV, radio and press coverage in March of the painful unfolding story of a family lost to the sea at Scarborough. After an 11-year-old boy was swept off the front and his family attempted...

South West Division Boys stranded rr WAS AN HOUR before high water on the afternoon of Sunday July 20, 1986, when the honorary secretary of Westonsuper- Mare lifeboat station was contacted by Swansea Coastguard to be told that two boys were...

A mode- rate easterly gale was blowing on the 3rd November, and with the flood-tide the sea increased considerably. During the afternoon two fishing boats, belong- ing to St. Andrew's, which had been waiting for the tide, were observed...

Youghal, Co. Cork.—At 6.30 on the evening of the 10th of August, 1957, the fishing vessel Star of Meavagh, of Skibbereen, skippered by the honorary secretary, had not arrived in the har- bour as expected. The honorary sec- retary's wife,...

NOVEMBER 19TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. At 10.10 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel near the N.E. Swin Lightship had been attacked by German aeroplanes.

A light S.W. breeze was blowing, with...

(Honorary Secretary, Cullercoats) EVERYWHERE in north-east England, and far beyond, "Bella, the Life-boat Lady "is known. Mrs. Bella Mattison is the nationally known character who epitomises the wives of fishermen everywhere, and...