LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Boats (5)
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At about 1 P.M. on the 23rd December, 1938, avery heavy ground swell got up in Wick Bay and seas were frequently breaking across the harbour entrance.
The fishing fleet was at sea, and as the entrance...
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Clovelly, North Devon - At 6.48 p.m.
on 14th January, 1967, information was received, that a boy was stranded on a rock about 500 yards from the shore at Northcott Mouth, one mile north of Bude. The life-boat William...
Bronze Medal for Norfolk Second Coxswain
AT half past nine on the evening of Saturday the 18th May, 1963, the Wells coastguard told the honorary secretary, Dr. E. W. Hicks, that a cabin cruiser was aground at the entrance to Blake- ney harbour.
The life-boat Cecil...
Category: Services
W. L. J.
CAISTEE.—The three-masted schooner W. L. J., of Swansea, bound from Goole for Plymouth with coal, and carrying a crew of ten men, was seen to near the Barber Sand and let go her anchor on the 28th December. As it was feared she would go...
New Appointments
The Institution has appointed Commander T. G. Michelmore, R.D..R.N.R., who was its inspector of life-boats on the east coast, and before that inspector in Scotland, to be deputy chief inspector of life-boats. Commander Michelmore's place...
Category: Articles
Life-Lines
BONNIE little Life-boat! Going out to seat What a splendid picture, Wherever she may be! Valiant little Life-boat! We know the signal well; Of vessels in distress, As rings the Life-boat bell.
Useful little Life-boat I...
Category: Poetry
Ocean Vanguard
Amble, Northumberland. — On the morning of the 15th of March, 1951, the fishing coble Ocean Vanguard was at sea in bad weather. There was a heavy swell at the harbour entrance, too, and she was unable to get in. So about 11.15 the...
Trenchemer
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 5.14 on the afternoon of the 29th of August, 1954, the Needles coastguard rang up to say that a yacht had gone ashore about two and a half miles north- north-east of Needles, but that she was in no immediate...
Fishing Boats (3)
GOURDON AND JOHNSHAVEN. — Several fishing-boats which had proceeded to sea in favourable weather early in the morning of the 4th March were overtaken by gale from the S.S.E., and as the sea became very heavy considerable anxiety was felt for...