LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 8.15 in the night of the 29th of November, 1949, a Canisbay doctor asked for the use of the life-boat to take him to Stroma Island to attend an injured man, as the weather was too bad for a shore-boat to take him. A...
A New Type of Motor Life-Boat
AT the end of last year we began building the first of a new type of Motor Life-boat.
She will be by far the largest and most powerful Motor Life-boat in the Instituincreased tion's Fleet, and will, in fact, be the...
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Tin Fish
SCARBOROUGH, August 1, 1987: the 37ft Oakley class lifeboat Amelia arrives back at Scarborough with the 38ft yacht Tin Fish which she had towed 24 miles after the vessel's engines had failed. A force 5/6 north-westerly wind at the...
Portrait of a Lifeboat Station: Wells
the crew and those who back them up ashore by Campbell MacCallum 1 Coxswain David Cox 2 Second Coxswain Anthony Jordan 3 Offshore lifeboat crew 4 Lt David Case RNVR, station honorary secretary 5 Mrs David Case 6 Lt S. C. Long RNVR, deputy...
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The Spanish Trawlers Monte Izankun and Costa da Isolda
Trawlers aided TWO SPANISH trawlers in difficulties two miles north of Skelligs rocks—one had a rope fouling her propeller and the other had engine trouble—on November 9, 1972, led to the Valentia, Co. Kerry, lifeboat being...
Kattie Darling
The Life-boat Elizabeth Austin was launched at 9.15 P.M. on the 1st January in answer to signals of distress from a vessel midway between Cardigan Head and Cardigan Island. There was a strong westerly breeze and a rough sea. On reaching the...
The Destroyer H.M.S. Walrus
Teesmouth, and Scarborough, Yorkshire.
—At 4.20 P.M. on the 12th February, 1938, a request was received from the coastguard at Whitby for the motor life-boa.t J. W. Archer, as the destroyer H.M.S. Walrus had broken from her...
The Factory Ship Pionersk
67 saved from stranded factory ship in Storm Force winds Lerwick's Arun class lifeboat Soldian was involved in another service to a Russian factory ship on 31 October 1994, another service in very bad weather and involving the evacuation...
Alpha
A useful Life- boat service was performed by the Michael Henry Life-boat on the 10th February.
At 10 A.M. information was received that a steam trawler had stranded on the Harbour Bar, and the Life-boat was launched to her...
Commander Nasmith
Longhope, Orkneys.—At 10 P.M. on the 7th September, 1989, the life-boat station was informed by the coastguard that the steam trawler Commander Nasmith was ashore on the north sideof Stroma. A later message said that the vessel was ashore on...