LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Yacht (2)
Seven aboard liferaft AT 0115 in the early hours of Saturday, October 20, 1984, red flares were sighted in the Bramble Bank area of the Solent. By 0136, Calshot's 40ft Keith Nelson lifeboat, Ernest William and Elizabeth Ellen Hinde,...
Books
• The 1981 edition of Reed's Nautical Almanac (Thomas Reed Publications, £7.95) marks the golden jubilee of this popular publication. There cannot be many lifeboats which do not have a copy of Reed's on the chart table and the...
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Etleena, of London
JANUARY 19TH. -SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 8.30 in the morning the naval control reported a vessel in need of help one mile south of the Medway Gate. A strong north-west wind was blowing, with a rough sea and snow squalls. The motor...
Mahelah
APRIL 22ND. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
At 5.20 P.M. the Skeldon Hill coastguard telephoned that a barge half a mile away was flying a signal. The weather had been foggy, with a strong easterly wind blowing and a moderate sea,...
Folda
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...
Halcyon (1)
SEPT. 27TH. - WALMER, AND RAMSGATE, KENT. At 6.45 A.M. the Deal coastguard reported a motor barge drifting ashore to the N.E. of their station. A heavy sea was running with a strong easterly wind.
At 7.5 A.M. the motor...
R.A.F. High Speed Launch 124
JANUARY 23RD. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 8.15 P.M. flag officer in charge Great Yarmouth asked, through the coastguard, for the services of the life-boat for R.A.F. High Speed Launch 124, which was aground on Scroby Sands...
Schooners Reaper, John Snell and Elizabeth Austin. Fishing Yawl Good Intent
On the 28th October, about noon, a vessel was observed to be fast drifting on Whitby Bocks. She, however, succeeded in clearing the rocks, and was driven with tremendous force on the beach. The wind was then blowing a hurricane from the...
Merisia
JANUARY 26TH. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. The steam trawler Merisia, of Fleetwood, while on her way to the northern fishing grounds, struck the rocks in Bulgham Bay, north of Laxey, in the Isle of Man.
The time was about...
Anchors: Old Forms and Recent Developments
By Captain ANTHONY S. THOMSON, C.B., Elder Brother of Trinity House, Commander E.N.R.
Reprinted from the " Journal of tJie Royal United Service Institution," by permission.
There is little...
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