LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
On Service In the Pentland Firth
THE following description of a service in the Longhope life-boat appeared in the mid-December 1962 number of "Motor Boat and Yachting." This is reproduced by kind permission of the editor, Commander Erroll Bruce, R.N., who is...
Category: Services
May
Launches 22. Lives rescued 17.
MAY 4TH.. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. Early in the morning , information was received from the coastguard that signals had been seen seven to eight miles N.N.W. of Kinnaird Head, and at...
Category: Services
February (1)
LYBSTER, CAITHNESS-SHIRE. At 10 o’clock in the morning of the 4th of December, 1945, three men in the motor fishing boat Seaflower, of Wick, had completed hauling their lobster creels, when their boat shipped a sea which stopped the engine....
Category: Services
Rescue (continued)
A FAMILY DAY OUT
HOLYHEAD | 7 JUNE
An experienced sailor and his 5-year-old grandson got driven aground in their 8m cruiser, after getting snagged in lobsterpot lines. They were spotted by nearby walkers, who quickly...
Category: Articles
Westward Ho!
Our summer break at Littlehampton was a little longer than anticipated perhaps due to a reluctance to depart before there was some progress to report on the new boathouse project. It is now some two years since discussions started on the...
Category: Articles
The Barges Esterel and Yampa
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT WALTON AND FRINTON OCT. 14TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. The barges Esterel and Yampa, of London, were on their map from London to Norwich with cargoes of maize, When nearly opposite Orfordness they were caught by...
White Heather II and Welcome Home
ON the morning of 17th February last a number of fishing boats from Sheringham, on the coast of Norfolk, went out after whelks. Before they returned a heavy sea had got up, and the boats were in danger. A message was sent for the Motor...
S.S. Royal Crown (1)
JANUARY 30TH. - LOWESTOFT, AND SOUTHWOLD, SUFFOLK. At 7.15 P.M. a message was received at Lowestoft from the coastguard that a boat belonging to the S.S. Royal Crown, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, had come ashore eight miles south of Lowestoft, and...
Albert and India
AND KINGSDOWNE.—Two large vessels went on the Goodwin Sands on the 18th De- cember. They were the barque Albert, of Bremen, 750 tons, bound thence to the East Indies, and the barque India, of Shields, 700 tons, bound to that port from Quebec...
The S.S. Isabo
THE month of October ended with, a week of strong winds rising at times to gales, which reached their climax on the 28th and 29th. On those two days it blew a severe gale from the south and west over Southern Ireland, England and Wales,...