LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Folio Society
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The Pyrene Company Ltd
Just as ships on the men emergency of THE PYRENE COMPANY LTD.
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S.S. Queensbury
JUNE 6TH. - MONTROSE ANGUS, AND GOURDON, KINCARDINESHIRE. At one in the morning the Montrose station heard from the coastguard that a convoy was being attacked by enemy aeroplanes thirteen miles E. 3/4 N. from Scurdyness, and at six minutes...
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JULY 30TH. - BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 3.50 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that he could see three people on the wreck of the minesweeper Unicity on the beach in Blyth Bay. The minesweeper had capsized just eighteen months...
The Long Tow
WHEN THE new Gorleston 44-foot steel life-boat Khami on 5th September, 1967» went to the aid of the m.v. Aureity, whose steering gear had broken down, no one knew then that the life-boat would end up by towing the auxiliary cutter...
Category: Services
The Ferries European Gateway and Speedlink (3)
Ferry collision HARWICH HARBOUR RADIO received a call at 2251 on Sunday December 19, 1982, from the outward bound roll-on roll-off ferry European Gateway reporting that she was in collision with the inward bound ferry Speedlink Vanguard in...
Dagenite Batteries
LIFEBOATS DEMAND THE DEPENDABILITY OF DAGENITE So does your car. Make sure you choose a Dagenite Easifil-it means what it says. Dagenite Batteries are used extensively by the R.N.L.I.
They don't take chances..
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The Motor Fishing Vessels Provider, Ocean Venture and Success
At 9 a.m. on i8th April, 1967, it was decided that, owing to a sudden deterioration in weather conditions, the life-boat should stand by for the return of the motor fishing vessels Provider, Ocean Venture and Success which were at...
Snowdrop
Dunbar, East Lothian - At 7.30 a.m.
on 15th June, 1967, it was learned that the motor fishing vessel Snowdrop which had grounded on Tynningham sands could not be refloated despite attempts by local fishing boats. It was...
The Annual Meetings 2002
2002 Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards Another busy year for the RNLI saw crews answer 6,882 calls and rescue 6,918 people.
Education and safety work is starting to show results and successful trial schemes...
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