LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tangled in Nets
On 3 March, 2 days into the scallop fishing season, a trawler crew member suffered serious head and neck injuries while trying to operate lifting gear.
New Quay’s Mersey class lifeboat crew were called out to prepare him...
Category: Articles
Fishing Cobles
STAITHES, YORKSHIRE.—Towards dusk on the 17th February, considerable anxiety was felt regarding three of the fishingcobles which had not returned to port and, as a strong wind was blowing and the sea was becoming heavy, the Life-boat...
A Motor Cruiser
Whitby, Yorkshire - At 10.10 p.m.
on 6th October, 1966, the police informed the honorary secretary that a motor cruiser had been reported missing from Whitby harbour. On the morning ofyth October the coastguard informed the...
Marazion - South Division
Like a giant sand castle, the picturesque granite island of St Michael's Mount rises 100m from the waters of Mount's Bay capped with a real 14th century castle.
The causeway, which is revealed at low tide, connects... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Marie Suzanne
MCH. 6TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. The crew of the fishing boat Marie Suzanne, of Ostend, had abandoned their sinking vessel in a small boat, but they were picked up by the Dutch motor vessel Jutland and landed at Dover. - Rewards, £...
A Trawler
JANUARY 19TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
A trawler had stranded under the cliffs at Kettleness, but her crew were rescued from the shore by the coastguard life-saving apparatus. - Rewards, £4 13s. 6d.
Neula
Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 11.12 on the morning of the 25th of April, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that the fishing boat Neula, an ex-R.N.L.I.
life-boat formerly stationed at Aber- ystwyth, was flying a distress...
Commander Lord Sempill, R.N.V.R.
COMMANDER LORD SEMPILL, R.N.V.R.
A Vice-President of the Institution since 1954 Lord Sempill, who died on 3oth December, 19563 had served on the Committee of Management from 1927 until he became Vice-President and had...
Category: Obituaries
£137 from a Picture Catalogue
AN exhibition of Dutch and Flemish pictures was held in his Bond Street gallery, in May and June, by Mr.
Eugene Slatter, and he very kindly gave the money from the sale of the catalogues to the Institution. The exhibition...
Category: Donations
King Athelstan
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 7.54 on the morning of the 10th of March, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that the local steam trawler King Athelstan, with a crew of ten, had broken adrift from a tug and gone on the Newcombe...