LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
New Choice
Longhope, Orkney.—At about 9.20A.M. on the 1st July information was received by telephone from Torness that a trawler was ashore. A moderate easterly wind was blowing. The sea was smooth, but there was a dense fog.
The...
Midley Belle
Rising winds RYE AUXILIARY COASTGUARD requested the launch of Rye Harbour lifeboat at 1350 on Saturday October 3 following reports that the 24ft ketch Midley Belle was heading out to sea. It was a squally afternoon with moderate confused...
Dinorah
At 7.45 on the morning of llth February, with a strong wind and a very heavy sea, the Donna Nook Life-boat was called out to the help of the steam trawler Dinorah, which was in distress at Haile Flat. The Boat was successfully launched at...
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Category: Advertisement
Naming Ceremony at Ilfracombe
THE naming ceremony of a new motor life-boat at Ilfracombe, Devon, took place on 16th June. The life-boat is one of the first two of the new surf type, described on page 167. She has cost £2,750, and has been built out of a legacy from...
Category: Inaugurations
A Punt
SECOND COXSWAIN DROWTSED WHILE OUT FISHING Howth, Co. Dublin. At 7.35 on the evening of the 22nd November, 1962, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that the son of the second coxswain, William McLoughlin, had reported that his...
Fishing Boats (1)
SEVEN FISHING BOATS ESCORTED TO HARBOUR Whitby, Yorkshire. On the afternoon of the 9th November, 1962, anxiety was felt for the safety of local fishing boats which were still at sea, and at 1.20 it was decided to launch the life-boat. At...
Crew Strengths
The Committee of Management of the R.N.L.I. have decided that the authorised full crew of all conventional life-boats shall in future be seven. Until now the authorised crew of wooden life-boats of over 41 feet in length was...
Category: Committee
Albany
GORLESTON.—The dandy Albany, of Lowestoft, while returning from fishing, on the 4th January, in a strong E.S.E.
gale and a very heavy sea, had her mainsail blown away and lost her rudder. She was taken in tow by another...
YACHT IN DISTRESS
YARMOUTH | 10 DECEMBER
The all-weather lifeboat crew based at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, headed to the aid of two sailors whose yacht was in danger of losing its mast. The yacht had serious rigging failure, leaving the sailors at...
Category: Services