LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Quest
— The fish- ing boats were out on the 7th July, and by noon bad weather had set in. A moderate E.S.E. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. The coxswain was told by fishermen coming ashore that the local coble Quest was still at sea and in a...
A Small Boat (3)
Portrush, Co. Antrim.—On the, afternoon of the 2nd September a small boat, with a woman and her son on board, capsized one and a half miles S.S.W. of Ramore Head, in a strong S.S.E. breeze, with a moderate sea.
The accident...
Coxwain William Sutherland, of Anstruther
The Anstruther station has lost not only one of its honorary secretaries, but, by the death of ex-Coxswain William Sutherland on 31st October, one of the oldest of its life-boatmen.
He joined the crew in 1894 and was...
Category: Obituaries
Provider
Flamborough, Yorkshire.—While the local fishing coble Provider was out fishing on the 25th of October, 1949, a south-easterly wind, increasing to gale force, made a very rough sea. The life-boat Howard D. was launched at eleven o'clock...
Anzac
Shorebam Harbour, Sussex.—At 8.10 on the night of the llth of November, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat was flashing S.O.S. signals.
Fifteen minutes later the life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was...
New Year's Honours
IN the New Year's Honours list, Mr.
Charles H. Barrett, who ha's been the honorary secretary of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund since 1938, and Mr.
William Francis Thomas Powell, who has been...
Category: Awards
Sorata
Falmouth, Cornwall. — At 9.15 on the night of the 9th of September, 1951, the St. Anthony coastguard telephoned that a yacht three miles south-east-by-south of St. Anthony Point was flying a flag and using only one of her sails. At 9.30 the...
Pioneer
Penlee, Cornwall.—During the night of the 22nd April, 1938, the coastguard at Penzer Point telephoned that a fishing boat was in distress about two miles S.S.W. of the point. A north breeze was blowing, with a smooth...
Life-Boat Charts for Yacht Clubs
As in the past four years, the Institu- tion has again supplied free to all yacht clubs which wished to have it a copy of the chart of life-boat stations round the British Isles which appears in the annual report. This chart, besides ...
Category: Articles
Brevet
TWO YACHTS TOWED IN Margate, Kent.—About 8.0 in the evening of the 4th of April, 1947, the motor yacht Brevet with seven on board, broke away from her moorings alongside the pier with a rope round her propeller and began to drift. A strong...