LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Contents
PORTRAIT OF A COXSWAIN 410 NOTES OF THE QUARTER .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 411 SIX SAVED FROM FISHING VESSEL .. .. .. .. .. .. 416 A LONG AND HAZARDOUS SERVICE .. .. .. .. .. .. 417 BOOK REVIEWS 422 BIRTHDAY HONOURS . . . . . . . ...
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Fishing Boats
FIVE COBLES ESCORTED BACK IN GALE Scarborough, Yorkshire. On the morning of the 31st May, 1962, when five local fishing boats were at sea, a strong northerly gale blew up and the sea became very rough. As conditions were growing worse, the...
Melody
JULY 27TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. On the occasion of the Babbacombe Regatta it was thought wise that the life-boat should patrol the course as a westerly breeze was blowing, causing a choppy sea, and it was bad weather for dinghy racing. The motor...
Robert Watson, of Sunderland
On the 2nd November, the barque Robert Watson, of Sunderland, ran ashore at Seaton Carew, in a heavy N.N.W. gale; the life-boat at that place was quickly launched and took off 5 of her crew; 6 others had previously effected a safe landing in...
First Slipway Launching and Recovery Trials for the Prototype 47Ft
First slipway launching and recovery trials for the prototype 47ft Tyne class fast slipway lifeboat City of London were successfully completed at Selsey lifeboat station in the spring. Selsey's own 48ft (tin Oaklev lifeboat Charles Henry... - View image in PDF
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Hattersley (Ormskirk) Ltd
Hattersley valves sail the wide world over, serving under many flags in the universal cause of safety at sea.
Hattersley (Ormskirk) Limited, Ormskirk, Lancashire.
Also at Halifax and London....
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Maria Nathali
The Duff Life-boat, stationed at this port, was launched, through a heavy surf, to the assistance of the Russian schooner Maria Nathalin, on the 2nd Feb., about noon, at which time there was a heavy snowstorm, with the gale E.S.E. The Duff...
James Bower Award
COXSWAIN MARK BATES, of Kilmore, Co. Wexford, has become the third member of a life-boat crew to receive a gift from the James Michael Bower Endowment Fund.
This fund was established in 1955 by the Peninsular & Oriental...
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The Crusader, of Liverpool
On the 1st December, at about 7A.M., it was reported that a large ship was on shore on the Goodwin Sands. The crew of the Van Kook Life-boat immediately assembled, and the boat put off, and being taken in tow by the s.s. Royal Welsh, of...
Rachel Douglas
Eyemouth, Berwickshire ; and Ber- wick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland. At 11.25 on the night of the 15th of February, 1960, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary at Eyemouth that a boat was in distress four miles east of Burnmouth. At...