The Morecambe Fishermen’s Association provided their own lifeboats. The first was ‘Gyakhan’, a large rowing boat built in 1895, the[…]
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Sailing By: Tales from our oceans, seas, coasts and inland waterways
Collecting 'tales of sail' from around the world to link with modern-day sailors
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The Morecambe Fishermen’s Association provided their own lifeboats. The first was ‘Gyakhan’, a large rowing boat built in 1895, the[…]
Read moreIn 1914 the Whitby lifeboatmen, along with four other boats from the treacherous north east coast of England, saved 85[…]
Read moreThis remarkable extract of a rescue at sea on 31 July, 1974 is based on the log book entries of[…]
Read moreThis remarkable design was the brainchild of the Rev. Edward Berthon in response to the shipwreck of ‘SS Orion’ off[…]
Read moreThis extract tells the tale of one of the Dunkirk ‘Little Ships’; Ramsgate lifeboat ‘The Prudential’, now renamed ‘Trimilia’. As[…]
Read moreWe bring two tales of rescue from Whitby, one at sea and one after dragging the lifeboat ‘Robert Whitworth’ overland[…]
Read moreFreeman was sole survivor of a tragic disaster on 9 February 1861, when his 12 fellow crew members drowned. This[…]
Read moreThe Coxswain and crew of the RNLI lifeboat ‘Lady Leigh’, ably assisted by the ‘rocket apparatus’ of the Coastguards, spent[…]
Read moreA dramatic, well-documented rescue takes place on the Farne Islands, off the Northumberland coast, 7 September, 1838. The rescue of[…]
Read moreHector Morrison (Eachainn), last survivor of the ‘Mayflower’ crew stranded on Sula Sgeir when the vessel was lost, reflects on[…]
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