FISHING VESSEL TOWED TO BEACH Aith, Shetlands. At 6.10 on the morning of the 1st April, 1962, the honorary secretary was informed by a man living in Sandness that a motor fishing vessel was in difficulties at the north end of Papa Stour as...
At 12.30 A.M. on the 27th February the watchman re- ported that a vessel was ashore on the Inner Binks. A strong S.S.W. gale prevailed at the time with a heavy sea, and the Life-boat was promptly launched. As it was impossible to reach...
The Arun class is the most numerous of the RNLI's all-weather lifeboats.
Designed to lie afloat on a mooring 46 boats were built between 1971 and 1990 for use in every Division.
Although some changes... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Campbeltown, Argyllshire. — At 10 A.M. on the 24th January, during a strong S.E. gale with a very rough sea, the s.s. Rustoer, of Glasgow, was dragging her anchor and drifting off the pier. Only the captain and a boy were aboard her. The...
Both photographs were taken by Mr. J. P. Grant, inspector o{ machinery, from the fourth lifeboat in the convoy, the Lowestoft motor life-boat, on the passage from Ramsgate to Lowestoft.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND. — As the s.s. Robert Watson Boyd, of North Shields, coal laden for Constantinople, was going to sea at about 7 A.M. on the 22nd March, her steering gear broke down, she became unmanageable, and drifted on to the...
The TV presenter and author talks Cornwall, creativity and crabbing
What inspired someone who’s spent a lot of their life around London to write about a tiny Cornish fishing village? I’ve loved Cornwall, especially Looe,...
Category: Articles
On the night of the 27th March the schooner Hor- tensia, of Hanover, drove ashore on the North Steel Rocks, near Boulmer. The Boulmer life-boat was soon launched through a high surf, and proceeded to the rescue of.
her...
OPERATIONAL DISTRICTS OF THE R.NL.I.
WITH EFFECT PRCM IST. JJUT' 196%.
Category: Charts
On the 4th February the smack Leader, of Harwich, was wrecked off Thorpeness in a very heavy sea. The Ips- wich life-boat was soon launched and taken alongside the vessel. All the crew had abandoned her except the master, and had been picked...