LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Practice Launches
AT the Conference of Life-boat Workers held at Bristol on June 18th, of which a report appears on page 485, one of the speakers pointed out how much it would interest the workers of inland Branches to see Life-boats afloat, and he asked if...
Category: Articles
Useful
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—The Lifeboat Mary Isabella was launched at 6 P.M. on the 29th January in a strong S.S.E. gale and heavy sea and succeeded in saving the crew of four hands of the schooner Useful of Barrow-in-Furness from a position of...
Fishing Cobles
On the 7th May seven of the cobles belonging to Ramborougb. were working their launched and, in tow of a tug, proceeded to the vessel. There was a heavy sea on the Sands, and the Marie Lane lay alongside the steamer from 11...
Shoreline Section
SHORELINE membership continues to increase steadily and insignia sales continue their upward trend. It is encouraging to find several boats in some of the larger harbours flying Shoreline flags, and to pass the occasional car on the road...
Category: Articles
A Dinghy
GirS caught in Dinghy rigging TWO PEOPLE clinging to a capsized dinghy one mile offshore, south of Towyn, were reported to Aberdovey honorary secretary by the Coastguard at 1220 on Friday, April 4.
The ILB launched at 1225....
San Remo Award
AT a meeting of the Committee of Management of the Institution in April it was decided to submit the name of Coxswain Daniel Kirkpatrick to the Italian Embassy in London for the San Remo "Figurehead of Courage" award for 1965. His...
Category: Awards
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Kaye
Dungeness, Kent. At 2.44 on the afternoon of the 7th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser was in distress seven miles south-east-by-south of Dungeness. At 3.5 the life-boat Mabel E. Holland was...
Swordfish
Humber, Yorkshire. At 4.45 on the morning of the 24th of June, 1958, the Spurn Point coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that the S.S.
Rota had signalled by morse lamp that a small yacht off Bull Sands needed...
Dauntless
GOURDON, KlNCARDINESHIRE. The fishing lugger Dauntless, of Gourdon, was returning to port with her catch of fish on the afternoon of the 16th November.
The wind was blowing from the S.S.E.
and the sea,...