LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
H.M. Trawler Blackburn Rovers
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT DOVER Nov. 26TH. - DOVER, KENT.
During the morning H.M. Trawler Blackburn Rovers, with 16 men on board, was on anti-submarine patrol off Dover near the minefields. A full gale was blowing from the...
Safety at Sea With Pyrotechnics-Part 1 Choosing the Right Distress Signals
WITH the present boom in the yachting and boating industry rising steadily each year, as more and more people seek and enjoy pleasurable pastimes afloat, there is also a growing anxiety from the marine rescue associations generally about the...
Category: Articles
Vellums Accorded to Three Scotsmen
AT 7.15 on the evening of the 12th of June, 1960, the police at Bo'ness learnt that a boat had capsized two hundred yards east of the Hen and Chickens buoy off Culross in the Firth of Forth. There was no boat available in Bo'ness...
Category: Articles
New Ways of Making Money
After the maiden trip of the latest addition to Lowestoft's trawler fleet, Silverfish, owned by the Colne Fishing Co. Ltd., the owners gave the first kit of fish, one of selected plaice, to be auctioned for the Institution's...
Category: Donations
An Offshore Platform
Marooned on platform THAMES COASTGUARD contacted Aideburgh lifeboat station's honorary secretary on the afternoon of Wednesday October 24, 1984 and requested a launch to 12 maintenance menmarooned on an offshore platform which forms part...
Blackbird and a Canoe
Three calls A CANOE with two children aboard, overdue on passage from Colne Point to West Mersea, was reported to the deputy launching authority of West Mersea ILB station by Thames Coastguard at 2006 on Monday July 31,...
Lifeboat People
Laurie Prynn, who had been a member of Salcombe lifeboat crew for some 16 years, regularly, from 1961 to 1978, gave about ten lectures a year to cadet members of the Island Cruising Club; in all he must have talked to some 7,000 youngsters...
Category: Articles
A Surfboard
nflatable saves surfer in conditions outside normal limits for D class Helmsman Peter Roberts and crew members Gavin Forehead and James Dixon of St Agnes were aboard the station's D class lifeboat on 30 October 1996 in a service which...
Towing Life-Boats In Rough Weather
IN consequence of more than one of the lifeboats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION having upset and broken adrift when in tow, through being to«red without any one on board to steer them, the following Instructions have been...
Category: Articles
Drago, of Genoa
On the afternoon of the 20th March this coast was suddenly visited by a tremendous storm from the N.N.W., and shortly afterwards information arrived that a large vessel was in a most precarious position off Morte Stone, a dan- gerous reef...