LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Busiest Year Yet
Busiest year yet At the RNLI’s AGM on 17 May, Chairman Admiral Sir Jock Slater gave an overview of 2006, the charity’s busiest year ever.
Lifeboat crews launched 8,377 times in 2006, an average of 23 times a day, rescuing 8...
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Couple rescued from foot of cliffs Redcar lifeboat helmsman Peter Hodge has been awarded a Bronze Medal for the outstanding rescue of two walkers and a dog cut off by the tide on 19 January. The couple and dog were trapped atthe foot of high...
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Fleetwood, Lancashire. —During the afternoon of Whit Sunday, the 16th of May, 1948, a yacht could he seen on Black Scar Bank apparently in diffi- culties. She made no distress signals, but at 5.15 in the evening, the coast- guard reported...
Dr. Leonard Gow, LL.D., D.L., Glasgow
No one has given more notable, generous and successful help to the life-boat service in Scotland than Dr.
Leonard Gow, LL.D., D.L., of Glasgow, who died on llth March, at the age of seventy-seven. Dr. Gow was the hon- orary...
Category: Obituaries
Page & Moy
It is not only the stunning and varied birdlife that makes a visit to Greenland unforgettable, but also the most breathtaking and spectacular landscapes in the world. There will be opportunities for whale watching and listen to our...
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Kirby
BOAT WAS OVERDUE Walmer, Kent. During the afternoon of igth November, 1963, the coastguard and local boatmen received reports that a local drift net fishing boat was overdue with a strong offshore gale blowing up.
The boat...
Friends of the RNLI
Renewable energy company Ørsted has pledged its support to the RNLI with a new 3-year partnership A global leader in offshore wind, Ørsted will donate more than £200,000 to fund the running costs of lifeboats at Barrow,...
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An Anson Aeroplane
FEBRUARY 2ND. - PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE.
An Anson aeroplane had been reported to have crashed in the sea, but the life-boat was recalled by the naval authorities. - Rewards, £5 16s. 6d..
Farringay
Holyhead, Anglesey. At 4.15 a.m. on 22nd September, 1965, the m.v. Farringay was reported by the coastguard to have broken down twenty miles west of South Stack lighthouse. She did not require immediate assistance. At 8.50 the honorary...
An Aeroplane (47)
APRIL 23RD. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
At 6.41 A.M. a message was received from the St. Agnes coastguard that a Hurricane aeroplane had crashed into the sea one and a half miles N.E. by N. from Portreath, and at 7.38 A.M. the...