LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Margate Life-Boatman's Death
IN the early hours of Sunday, the 6th of November, 1949 (see page 402) the Margate life-boat was called out on service and one of the crew, Benjamin Frost, cycled down to the boathouse at the end of the pier. As soon as he got into the boat...
Category: Obituaries
Fortunatus, Gallilee, Mizpah, Noel, Pilot Me and Venus
Early on the morning of the 4th March six local motor fishing boats—Fortunatus, Galli- lee, Mizpah, Noel, Pilot Me and Venus —-put oft to the fishing grounds. By 8 A.M. the sea had become rough, and the river was running strongly into the...
Shaiba
St. Ives, Cornwall. At 10.30 on the morning of the 18th of November, 1958, the coastguard told the coxswain that a motor launch was sinking to the east of St. Ives Bay. Five minutes later the life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando and Eva Child...
Boy Billy, Our Boys and June Rose
Sheringham, Norfolk. At 7.15 on the morning of the 17th of April, 1959, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that three local fishing boats were at sea in deteriorating weather.
The life-boat Foresters Centenary was...
Melinka
Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 10.17 on the night of the 24th of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor boat had broken down off Ardnamurchan lighthouse.
The life-boat City of Glasgow, on...
A Boat
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At 10.5 on the night of the 4th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat with three people on board was drifting off Pen Anglas. The life-boat Howard Marryat was launched at 10...
Centenary of Fowey Station
AT a ceremony in the Council Chamber at Fowey, Cornwall, on the 7th of December, 1959, Lieut.-Commander H.
H. Harvey, Western District Inspector, handed the vellum commemorating the hundredth anniversary of the establish-...
Category: Articles
Dunottar Castle
Barra Island, Hebrides. At 8.20 on the evening of the 17th of November, 1959, the parents of two fishermen aboard the motor fishing vessel Dunottar Castle told the honorary secretary they were worried about their sons, who had left early in...
Miriam
Wicklow. At 10.30 on the morning of the 22nd of December, 1959, the local fishing boat Miriam had not returned although she had left harbour at four o'clock. As the weather was deteriorating the life-boat /. W. Archer was launched at...
Eagle Book of Ships
THE Eagle Book of Ships and Boats (Hulton Press, 15/-)., which is excel- lently produced and illustrated, has been published at a most reasonable price. It includes sections on the Royal Navy, the Merchant Navy, safety at sea and sailing....
Category: Articles