OUTBOARDS MARINER DOESNT JUST PROMISE RELIABILITY it proves it! II you're considering buying an outboard, whatever the size, you'll have noticed that almost every manufacturer promised GREATER RELIABILITY as an Important reason for...
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Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 15th of August, 1959, the coastguard told the coxswain that a yacht had capsized near Hartle- pool breakwater but added that there were other boats near by. The life-boat crew were...
Longhope, Orkney, and Thurso, Caith- ness-shire.—The Longhope motor life- boat Thomas McCunn was launched at 11.30 P.M., and the Thurso motor life-boat H.C.J. at 11 P.M., on the 25th February, as news had been received from the coastguard...
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 9.50 on the night of the 27th of April, 1950, lights, believed to be flares, were seen from the signal station. At 10.15 the police confirmed seeing them from St.
Martin's Point. At 10.45...
Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 7.52 on the evening of the 17th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a 13-feet sailing dinghy was overdue at Isle Ornsay, Skye. It was high water when the life-boat E. M....
Cut off by tide INFORMATION THAT A MAN had been reported cut off by the tide below the cliffs in the vicinity of the Coastguard lookout was passed to the honorary secretary of Whitby lifeboat station at 1630 on Sunday, June 5. The assembly...
Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire. — At 5.21 on the afternoon of the 25th of July, 1955, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that the motor ship Ferm, of Grimstad, Norway, which was out- ward bound, had wirelessed that a member of her crew had...
What has a 25-knot all-weather craft powered with waterjets got in common with a £300 wooden boat with 10 oars? They’re both fundraising targets set by The Lifeboat Fund – the UK civil service charity set up in aid of the RNLI. When the...
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With the passing of the equinox, the temptation can grow to withdraw into the Autumnal gloom. But if you curl up for a good read with this issue of the Lifeboat,you will find yourself transported across land, sea and time.
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Scarborough, Yorkshire. On the morning of the 10th of November, 1960, a south-easterly gale was blowing and the sea was rough. There was heavy rain. The local fishing boat Marion wasat sea, and conditions at the harbour entrance...