LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letters
Thirty-five years back • Commander Pearson's encounter with the lifeboat service off the Scottish coast during the last war, described in his letter published in the spring issue of THE LIFEBOAT, interested me very much. Having spent a...
Category: Correspondence
James Postlethwaite
Ferryside, Carmarthenshire. — During the morning of the 28th August, 1938, a vessel under sail was seen beating up towards Cefn Sidan. A moderate N.
gale was blowing, with a moderate sea.
The vessel was...
IRB Launches. Rescues by IRB's in April were Carried out by the Following Stations
SOUTHERN DISTRICT Torbay, Devon - At 3.35 p.m. on ist April, 1967, it was learned that a sailing dinghy had capsized off Paignton. The IRB was launched at 3.47 in a moderate to fresh south by westerly wind and a slight sea. It was low water....
Category: Services
Life-Boat Crossword—2
The winners of the October crossword were: 1st prize (watch), Mrs. Laura S. Lamb, Lloyds Bank House, Broadway, Worcs.; 2nd prize (£1), Mr. J. A. Porter, 149 Coast Drive, Lydd-on-Sea, Kent; 3rd prize (£1), Mr. P....
Category: Articles
Book Corner
• Boat World: The Sail and Powerboat Yearbook 1971, now in its eighth edition, is to hand from Sell's Publications Ltd., Sell's House, 39 East Street, Epsom, Surrey, price £1.25. This annual handbook for boat owners is packed...
Category: Articles
Y L a News
THERE has been a good world-wide response to the Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters' Association which, as announced in the last issue of THE LIFE-BOAT, was launched by Sir Alec Rose, the round-the-world sailor, at the International...
Category: Articles
A Sailing Long Boat
FOLLOWING A MESSAGE received at 1553 on Saturday March 29, that a.sailing longboat from Wellesley Nautical School Community Home with six crew and an instructor on board had capsized one mile south of the fairway buoy, Blyth D class...
Against the flow – the first woman to sail solo the ‘wrong way’ around the world
Against the flow – the first woman to sail solo the ‘wrong way’ around the world
by Dee Caffari
Review by Tim Robertson
The comparisons are inevitable I suppose – two women competing solo in a...
Category: Articles
Schesaplana
Capsized motor cruiser THE DUTY COASTGUARD on watch in the lookout of Solent MRSC on the spring bankholiday Monday, May 25, reported at 1256 that a vessel had capsized in the vicinity of the Shingles Bank Elbow Buoy at the western approaches...
Violet and Virgin,Training Ship Prince Louis, Ketch Owl
Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 3.25 on on the afternoon of the 16th September, 1961, a local resident informed the honorary secretary that the small fish- ing vessel Violet was unable to make the harbour entrance. The wind at the time had...