LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Naming Ceremony at North Sunderland
THE Duchess of Northumberland, C.B.E., a vice-patron of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild and president of the Alnwick Guild, named a new motor life-boat at North Sunderland on 5th September. The boat is of the 35 feet 6 inches light Liverpool...
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Saga, the S.S. Gowrie and S.S. St. Clair (1)
Aberdeen, and Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.
—At 2.25 on the morning of the 17th of September, 1950, the Gregness coastguard telephoned the Aberdeen life-boat authorities. The motor fish- ing vessel Saga, of Aberdeen, with a...
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The Danish S.S. Niord
CULLERCOATS.—At 8.30 P.M. on the 5th January, the Life-boat Go-operator No.
was launched and proceeded to the assistance of the Danish s.s. Niord, bound from Copenhagen for the Tyne with a general cargo, which had stranded...
Julia
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 16th of June, 1956, a message was received from Valentia radio that the Dutch motor vessel Stientje Mensinga had picked up the small yacht Julia ten miles north-east...
La Colina and Steamer Mergus
Penlee, Cornwall. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 25th June, 1961, the honorary secretary received a message that the life-boat would be needed to meet the motor vessel La Colina of London off the Wolf Rock lighthouse and take...
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Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 1st July, 1961, Valentia radio informed the honorary secretary that a badly injured man on Tearsaght Rock needed a doctor, and the help of the life-boat was requested. The man had cut his...
Lifeboat People
DR NORA ACHESON who died in Aideburgh in 1981, in her eightieth year, had always been connected with the local lifeboat. It was thought that she was the first lady doctor ever to have gone to sea in an RNLI lifeboat on service when she stood...
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Hazardous as two casualties are brought to safety The rescue of two persons trapped at the end of a breakwater by heavy breaking seas has led to David Porritt, helmsman of Staithes and Runswick Atlantic 21 class lifeboat being awarded the...
Cardium
The Coxswain of the Life-boat Alexandra was called by the Coastguard at 6 A.M. on the 23rd March, a steamer having stranded on the "Book" rock. The boat was launched at once and found that the vessel was the oil-tank steamer...