LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Medal for Scottish Skipper
THE gallantry of the skipper of a fishing vessel, Mr. Ian Innes of Helmsdale, Sutherland, which resulted in the rescue of three other fishermen, has been recognized by the award of the Institution's bronze medal for...
Category: Services
Barrus
Barrus has supplied Mariner outboard engines to the RNLI for over twenty years and also leads the field in the distribution of high quality engine powered products within the Farm and Garden, Industrial and marine markets, through selected...
Category: Advertisement
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Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 10.55 on the morning of the 9th of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of a report received from the police that a small boy was in the sea off Rossall Point. At 11.5 the life-boat Ann...
EVER READY
Out for an evening walk with his children on 13 March, training, experience and teamwork helped an off-duty lifeboat helm save a life
Brian Niland had had a busy day. After finishing work as a medical rep, he’d picked his...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Noordam
OCT. 4TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 4.20 P.M. the Deal coastguard reported that the S.S. Noordam, of Rotterdam, lying off Deal, had signalled for a boat to take a man ashore for an immediate operation. A strong E. by S. wind was blowing with a...
Naming and Dedication: St.Mary's Scilly Islands Shoreham Harbour and Fishguard
Naming and Dedication AT ST MARY'S, ISLES OF SCILLY, SHOREHAM HARBOUR AND FISHGUARD St Mary's, Isles of Scilly THE ISLES OF scii.i.v's new 52ft Arun class lifeboat, donated by Mrs Esme Edgar and her son, Mr Anthony Edgar, was...
Category: Inaugurations
Travelscope
4 days Departing November & December 2006 On board MS Britannia Cruise the romantic Rhine when its famous Christmas Markets are in full swing and its villages and towns are jingling with festivity. Enjoy the terrific shopping...
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An Aeroplane (4)
Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire; New Brighton No. 2, Cheshire ; Kirkcudbright; Douglas, Peel, Port Erin, Port St. Mary and Ramsey, Isle of Man.—21st January.
These eight life-boats searched for a missing aeroplane without...
The S.S. Edith Owen
CEMLYN AND CEMAES, ANGLESEY.—On the 27th January, the s.s. Edith Owen, of London, bound from Bristol to Liverpool with a general cargo, struck on the Coal Kock, off the coast of Anglesey, during foggy weather, the wind blowing moderately...
The S.S. Fleswick
HAYLE, CORNWALL.—The s.s. Fleswick, of Whitehaven, coal laden from Neath for Hayle, stranded on the eastern spit of Hayle Bar, in a strong gale from N.
and a very heavy sea, on the 28th January. At 7.55 P.M. the Life-boat E...