LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Harbour Tug Barkis
Capsized tug PILOT CUTTER COXSWAIN Michael Knott was in Lowestoft Bridge Control station when, at 0825 on Monday, August 16, 1976, a radio message was heard on Channel 16 VHP that the harbour tug Barkis had...
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Trapped by tide A LIFEGUARD telephoned the deputy launching authority of Newquay, Cornwall, ILB station at 1555 on Wednesday August 8, 1979, to tell him that two girls were trapped by the tide at Lamorna Cove. The ILB, manned by Helmsman...
Four New Life-Boats Named
HER Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, President of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, named the new Berwick-upon-Tweed life-boat William and Mary Durham on the 25th of July, 1957. The ceremony took place at Spittal harbour.
Category: Inaugurations
New Scottish, Irish and English Life-Boats
NEW life-boats in Scotland, Ireland and England—at Longhope in the Orkneys, at Howth in the Irish Republic, and at Weston-super-Mare in Somerset—were named during the last quarter.
The money to build the Longhope life-boat...
Category: Inaugurations
Revision of the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea: An Introduction to An Introduction By Leslie J Vipond Inspector Mobile Training Unit
Coming into force 1200 zone time, July 15, 1977 AN INTRODUCTION TO AN INTRODUCTION by Leslie J. Vipond Inspector, Mobile Training Unit AS A YOUNG MAN, determined to follow the sea as a career, I grew up to fear the 'Articles'. The...
Category: Articles
The Rescue of Drowning Persons
THE RESCUE OF DROWNING PERSONS.
THE summer of 1868 will long be remembered by the present generation in the British Isles as the most extraordinary within their recollection ; for what With the long continuance of almost...
Category: Articles
Mla Unit Trust Management
MLA INTERNATIONAL TRUST A truly international spread which has grown 42.5% in 12 months MLA International Trust invests for capital growth in the world's leading stock markets and strongest currencies - it has notched up gains of 42.5%...
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White Heather II and Welcome Home
ON the morning of 17th February last a number of fishing boats from Sheringham, on the coast of Norfolk, went out after whelks. Before they returned a heavy sea had got up, and the boats were in danger. A message was sent for the Motor...
Teasel (2)
Ramsey, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.
•—Just before half past five in the evening of the 6th of January, 1948, the coastguard informed the Ramsey life-boat station that the motor vessel Teasel was six miles east of the...
H.M. Trawler Marjory Hastie
FEBRUARY 20TH. - TYNEMOUTH, AND CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 8.13 in the morning the honorary secretary at Tynemouth had a telephone call from the Port War Signal Station that one of H.M. trawlers had struck a mine...