LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

A DANGEROUS HARBOUR BAR Whitby, Yorkshire.—At about 11.30 in the morning of the 4th of December, 1947, word was received that local fishing cobles and other boats were coming in. The tide was ebbing, a light easterly breeze was blowing and...

Arbroath, Angus.—At midday on the 17th December a S.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea and heavy rain. The local fishing boats Sceptre, Our Boys, Golden Rule, Breadwinner and Helen Cargill were expected in, and as the harbour bar was very...

By Rear-Admiral Fitz-Roy, F.R.S.

INFORMATION about the weather, or respecting instruments available for popular use, as indicators of changes in our ever-varying atmosphere, has been extensively diffused daring late years,...

Aith, Shetland December 10.

Amble, Northumberland December 9, 19 and January 28.

Anstruther, Fife December 13.

Arbroath, Angus December 22.

Arklow, Co. Wicklow December...

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SUNDERLAND.—At about 10 A.M. on the 22nd November, the fishing-boats Dotherel, British Defiance, Star in the East, and Hannah, were observed in distress about three miles S.E. of Sunderland during a strong E.S.E. wind and a rough sea. The...

Dungeness, Kent.—In the early morn- ing of the 26th of May, 1950, in a thick fog, the S.S. Cabo Espartel, of Seville, bound for Valentia with a cargo of ammonia, collided with the S.S. Felspar, of Glasgow. About 3.49, just before she sank,...

RACE CALAMITY Beaumaris, Anglesey; Rhyl, Flintshire; and Llandudno, Caernarvonshire.

On nth July, 1965, thirty-two speed boats were taking part in a race at Llandudno when a south westerly wind of near gale force sprang up,...