LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
M.F.V. Ecstasy and M.F.V. Broadside
Escort THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY of Southwold lifeboat station received a request at 1335 on Monday January 31, 1983, for the lifeboat to escort MFV Ecstasy and MFV Broadside to Lowestoft; the weather was too bad for the fishing vessels...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 9th January, 1890.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart, M.P., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting.
Also read those of the Finance and...
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The Humility and Three Sons
On the morning of the 23rd September news was received that two Cullercoats fishing cobles were in distress off Culler- coats harbour. A moderate N.E.
breeze was blowing, with a rough sea.
The Cullercoats...
Lea Rig, Fisherboy and Crest
JAN. 9TH. - THURSO, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
Four seine net fishing boats- Streamlet, Lea Rig, Fisherboy, and Crestwere overtaken by a sudden N.N.W. gale, with a heavy sea, when fishing about eighteen miles west of Thurso. The motor...
Faith, Irene and Noel II
On 20th October several of the local fishing boats put out at three in the morning. A moderate N.E. gale came up, with a rough sea, and by 5.30 A.M. the weather was so bad that it was decided to launch the Motor Life-boat Margaret Harker...
Pilot Me and Royal Empire
On returning to harbour shortly after 4 P.M. on the 21st February the crew of the fishing boat Pilot Me reported that they had found the breaking seas at the harbour entrance very difficult and that the coble Royal Empire had yet to make...
New Dawn and Silver Coquet
Amble, Northumberland - At 7.21 a.m. on i8th April, 1967, two cobles were reported at sea with conditions on the bar bad. At 7.58 the cobles were seen to be approaching the harbour, and the life-boat Millie Walton slipped her moorings five...
Newlands and the S.S. Sylvafield
AUGUST 18TH. - TOBERMORY, ARGYLLSHIRE. The trawler Newlands arrived with sixteen survivors of the S.S. Sylvafield, of Newcastle, an oil tanker, which had been torpedoed and sunk off Barra Head on the night of the 15th August. The vessel had...
Kurt Arlt and Petrel (1)
Margate, Kent, and Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 5.36 on the morning of the 25th of December, 1957, the coast- guard told the honorary secretary that a collision had occurred near the south- east Girdler buoy between the motor vessel Kurt Arlt,...
"Private benevolence, energy, and zeal."
The following paragraph first appeared in THE TIMES on 20th February, 1866.
It was printed again in THE TIMES on i$th February, 1966: (Royal National Life-boat Institution) Nothing, in fact, that the Government could do...
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