LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dell Quay Dory
Found in time THE NIGHT OF JANUARY 11, 1987 W3S bitterly cold, with temperatures falling to minus 10°C along the south coast.
In Poole Harbour a north-easterly wind created a chill factor of minus 15°C or more, so...
Shoreline
IT is JUST A YEAR since I took over as membership secretary, and what an eventful year it has been. Apart from the pleasure of making many new friends among our members, it has been most encouraging to receive your numerous letters bringing...
Category: Articles
Meuse, and Asteria
JANUARY 18TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At 6.52 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that the Belgian steamer Meuse was aground near the Haisboro’ Sands.
A W.N.W. wind was blowing with a moderate sea...
Humbergate
Humber, Yorkshire. At 3.58 on the morning of the 22nd of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that the coaster Humber- gate was aground half a mile south of Easington. The life-boat City of Brad- ford HI was...
Birds Eye Foods
Backbone of the FishingTrade.
This was one that didn't get away. One of a thousand million.
A thousand million of the reasons why every day and night men put out to sea in all weathers to earn their...
Category: Advertisement
Birds Eye Foods
Backbone of the FishingTrade.
This was one that didn't get away. One of a thousand million.
A thousand million of the reasons why every day and night men put out to sea in all weathers to earn their...
Category: Advertisement
The S.S. Monte Nuria
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 8.32 in the morning of the 25th of August, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that the s.s. Monte Nuria, of Bilbao, bound from Immingham to Buenos Aires with a cargo of coal, was aground at Sheringham. She had struck a sub-...
Deterioration of Our Merchant Seamen
ENGLAND—that is to say, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland—is a great, a wealthy, a populous, and a powerful country. But it is likewise essentially a maritime one. If not maritime it would have been nothing; for without that...
Category: Articles
Building a Rother Class Lifeboat: Part Iv—Skeleton Hull
DURING THE PAST THREE MONTHS, the work of building up the skeleton hull of the lifeboat (Fig, 1), swiftly sketched out in Part III of this article, has been progressing at William Osbornes with meticulous care. Each of the very many pieces...
Category: Articles
Hope Crest
ump passed to sinking fishing boat in gale and heavy seas Coxswain Albert Sutherland and the crew of the Fraserburgh lifeboat took over three hours to battle through the 10-12m seas and a full south easterly gale to reach the fishing vessel...