LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Venus and Pilot Me
About 5 A.M. on the 18th October four of the local fishing boats put to sea. Shortly afterwards the wind veered to the N.N.W. and increased to a strong gale with very heavy seas which made it dangerous to enter the harbour. One of the boats...
Dorothy and Sun Beam
The local fishing cobles put to sea on the morning of the 2nd November, but bad weather got up and by 7.15 A.M. all of them, except the Dorotkyand the Sunbeam, had returned.
At 9.30 A.M. a strong N.W. gale was blowing, with...
Robine and Consort
On the morning of the 20th February, the motor fishing boat Consort, of Girvan, was seen lying at anchor about five hundred yards north of the harbour. A mod- erate S.S.W. gale was blowing with a rough sea. A watch was kept on the boat, and...
Happy People: Rescued Two and Saved Boat
TWO MEN had been spending Sunday January 16 fishing off the western end of the Isle of Wight in an open 17ft dory. When, at 1530, they started to prepare for the return passage to Poole, their outboard engine failed. They were reported...
Category: Articles
Lerwick: After Standing By the Listing Fred Everard All Night on Her Slow Progress Towards Lerwick Through Gale Force Winds As the List Increased the 52' Barnett Relief L
Lerwick: After standing by the listing Fred Everard all night, on her slow progress towards Lerwick through gale force winds, as the list increased, the 52' Barnett relief lifeboat Ramsay Dyce took off her chief engineer's wife and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Comfort, Daisy and Widgeon
On the morning of 12th May, a moderate S.E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea. Three local fishing boats—Comfort, Daisy and Widgeon—were at sea, and as it was seen that they could only cross the harbour bar at a big risk, it was...
Letters And Reader Information
Letters To add your opinion, write to The Editor at RNLI Headquarters or email [email protected] Dear Editor As a landlocked landlubber, I sometimes wondered why I joined the RNLI as a Shoreline Member many years ago. I was so...
Category: Correspondence
As Soon As News Was Received of the Missing Longhope Life-Boat a Watch Was Kept for Survivors Who Might Have Come Ashore. Here Police Officers Are Scanning the Turbule
As soon as news was received of the missing Longhope life-boat a watch was kept for survivors who might have come ashore. Here police officers are scanning the turbulent waves.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Eliza, and James and Sarah
"WHITBY.—On the 8th May two fishing vessels, the Eliza and the James and Sarah, belonging to Scarborough, were seen to be making for Whitby Harbour, during a strong S.E. breeze. The sea being very heavy, it was impossible for them to...
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