LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Converted Ship's Life-Boat
Plymouth, Devon - At 3.50 a.m. on 16th July, 1966, a converted ship's lifeboat with four men on board was stated to be overdue. The occupants had gone fishing at the ledges nine miles out. The life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse...
Moira
TOWED SAFELY Seaham, Co. Durham. At 5.23 p.m.
on yth June, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a fishing coble about 11 miles off the pier was lying broadside to a moderate sea and a fresh westerly breeze....
Red Hackle
SEPTEMBER 10TH. - ARBROATH, ANGUS.
At 7.57 in the evening a fisherman reported the local fishing boat Red Hackle in difficulties and drifting towards the rocks a mile west of the harbour. A south-easterly breeze was blowing...
Safe Return
SEPTEMBER 29TH. - BALTIMORE, CO. CORK. At 8.30 P . M . the owner of the Skibbereen motor fishing boat Safe Return reported that his boat, with a crew of three, was five hours overdue, and the motor lifeboat Shamrock was launched at 9.5 P.M....
Books
Book review Trafalgar - the men, the battle, the storm By Tim Clayton and Phil Craig Published by Hodder and Stoughton ISBN 0340830263 Price: £20 As SeaBritain 2005 gets underway, Trafalgar takes the reader back 200 years to what the...
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Fishing Boats (2)
OCTOBER 29TH. - EYEMOUTH, BERWICKSHIRE.
During the afternoon three local fishing boats in Eyemouth Bay were seen making for harbour in a strong N.E. gale, with a very heavy sea, and the motor life-boat Frank and William...
An Aeroplane (1)
Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire; New Brighton No. 2, Cheshire ; Kirkcudbright; Douglas, Peel, Port Erin, Port St. Mary and Ramsey, Isle of Man.—21st January.
These eight life-boats searched for a missing aeroplane without...
Melinda Muriel
Overturned fishing vessel AN EIGHTEEN FOOT fishing vessel, Melinda Muriel, had put out to sea from Skinningrove, Cleveland, with fourpeople on board on the morning of Tuesday July 29, 1986. The wind was north westerly and there were squally...
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