LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Silver Quest (1)
Five lifeboats in long search for lost fishermen Newcastle, Co. Down's, Oakley class lifeboat Jane Hay and Portaferry's Atlantic 21 Blue Peter V took part in long searches for the two crewmen from a fishing boat Silver Quest which...
A Fishing Boat
Sea trials interrupted to rescue seriously ill fishermanThe RNL) knows how to get the maximum benefit from its contractors. DML Ltd, the Plymouth-based dockyard, are responsible for building and repairing some of the all-weather lifeboats....
Phoenix AX193
OCTOBER 19TH. - CLOVELLY, DEVON.
At 1.30 in the morning a message came from the naval officer-in-charge at Appledore that phoenix AX193 - one of the concrete caissons used to build the breakwater of the invasion port on...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
CRESSWELL, NORTHUMBERLAND. — The Life-boat Ellen and Eliza was launched at 10.50 P.M. on the 6th February, 1899, in keenly frosty weather, while a moderate southerly breeze was blowing, accompanied by a heavy sea and a thick haze, and went...
Category: Services
The S.S. Benwyvis, the S.S. Guecho and the German Tug Wotan
Dover, Kent.—At 7.37 oil the night of the 21st of March, 1952, the Sandgate coastguard telephoned that two ships had been in collision in a fog four miles south-east of Dover. They were the S.S. Benwyvis, of Leith, and the...
Servic
Hartlepool, Co. Durham, and Tees- mouth, Yorkshire. At 5.10 on the morning of the 13th of December, 1957, the South Gare coastguard told the Teesmouth honorary secretary that a vessel was firing rockets one mile north of the breakwater. At 5...
Seylla II
Steering damaged BRONZE MEDAL AUGUST BANK HOLIDAY MONDAY, 1986 found the Channel Islands in the grip of a southerly force 10 storm, which had earlier swept across most of the rest of Britain.
At 1935 St Peter Port Radio...
Clare S, Northern Star, Fair Ladies and Press On
Caught out ON THE MORNING of Thursday January 31 a fleet of fishing boats sailed from Hartlepool in comparatively good weather which, however, deteriorated fast. Within an hour, a near gale, force 7, had blown up from the east north east...
RNLI lottery and Mini draw
DAVID WEBB, the Bournemouth Cherries football team player/coach and former centre-half for Orient, Southampton, Chelsea, Queens Park Rangers, Leicester and Derby football clubs, drew the RNLI's tenth national lottery at Poole HQ on...
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Listings
On station ON-1127(47-019) Babs and Agnes Robertson, The Mumbles, 15 July 2006. ON-1096(47-005)ft/)eMw»e Measures withdrawn ON-1281(16-02) Haydn M/7/er, Tenby, 28 April 2006.
ON-1112(47-010) RFA Sir Galahad withdrawn...
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