LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Langdon Battery Coastguard Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre, Straits of Dover: in the operation room continuous watch is kept on the VHF distress and calling frequency, channel 16.. - View image in PDF

FEBRUARY 1993 Mrs Betty Foster, chairman of Driffield ladies' guild since 1983. She served as secretary for 16 years from 1967 and was awarded a Gold badge in 1991..

THE Esso Petroleum Co. now produce an attractive leaflet which is given away at garages suggesting routes for motorists. One of these, 'Tiger Trail Number Two', is largely devoted to life-boat stations in Cornwall. Another such...

12 January: Lifeboats from Dun Laoghaire were called out shortly after midday to a yacht with a suspected fire onboard, probably due to an overheating engine. The lifeboat took the six crew members off the 11m...

MARCH 15TH - 17TH. - LYTHAM-ST.

ANNES, LANCASHIRE. At 9.30 A.M.

information was received from the resident naval officer at Preston, and confirmed by the coastguard, that a vessel was aground, and at 10...

Girvan, Ayrshire, and Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—About five o'clock on the morning of the 22nd of December, 1952, the Portpatrick coastguard tele- phoned the Girvan life-boat station that the S.S. Margareta, of Lovisa, Finland, had run...

COLONEL SIR HENRY MCMAHON, G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., K.C.I.E., C.S.I., who died on the 29th of December, 1949, at the age of 87, had been a member of the Committee of Manage- ment for thirty years, and was ap- pointed a vice-president in 1948. He ...

ON the afternoon of the 30th of May, ths life-boat at Cullercoats ran an engine trial. As she was being re- placed on her carriage she slipped and fell on one of the launchers, a man of sixty-seven. One of his legs was so severely injured...