LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Russian Fish Factory Ship Pionersk
Lerwick lifeboat's service to the Russian fish factory ship Pionersk, recounted in the Winter 1994/5 issue of THE LIFEBOAT, has been recognised by the award of a Silver Medal for Gallantry to the coxswain, Hewitt Clark, and The Thanks of...
Launches
ABERDEEN ON-1248(17-24):Dec24; Jan 12,17 D-536:Dec21;Jan12;Feb25 ABERDOVEY B-758: Mar 29(x2) ABERSOCH B-790: Dec 31 A RF R V CTWYTH MDcn T j i w i i n B-774:Dec28;Jan21; Feb 20,22(x2); Mar 3,23,28,30 ACHILL ISLAND, ON-1228(14-24):Dec7...
Category: Services
Vanadis
GORLESTON.—Signal-gnus having been fired by the St. Nicholas light-vessel on the llth April, the Life-boat Mark Lane was launched at 11 P.M., spoke the lightship and found that the guns she had fired were in response to those fired by the...
H.M.S. Birnbeck
MARCH 27TH. - WESTON-SUPER-MARE, SOMERSET. At 8.15 P.M. it was learned from the officer commanding H.M.S. Birnbeck, that the motor vessel with a crew of four was ashore off Howe Rock, in Berrow Bay, and would foul the coast defences if she...
RNLI News
Newspoint In Reserve The financial reserves held by charities came underthe media spotlight recently as a result of a television pro- gramme on Channel 4.
The programme asked whether it was wrong for charities with large...
Category: Articles
Brookes & Gatehouse Ltd
electronic aids to navigation DEPTH—by HECTA echo-sounder, as supplied to the R.N.LI, and to att yachts of the successful British Admiral's Cup team. This instrument indicates depth by pointer and scale, and illumination for night use is...
Category: Advertisement
Saint-Pierre-Eglise
Caister, Norfolk.—At 6.35 on the morning of the 13th of February, 1955, the Great Yarmouth coastguard tele- phoned to say the North Foreland radio station had reported that the motor trawler Saint-Pierre-Eglise, of Bou- logne, had...
A Dinghy (3)
MAN TAKEN OFF MOORING BUOY Holyhead, Anglesey. At 10.5 on the night of the 24th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small dinghy with a man on board was drifting across Holyhead harbour.
On...
Tine Andersen of Hull
Tenby, Pembrokeshire - At 4.22 a.m.
on 8th August, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the drifter Tine Andersen of Hull, with one man on board, had dragged her anchor and was drifting on to a lee shore at...
Dingaling
Atlantics join forces to save yacht crew on Chichester Bar The Institution's Bronze medal for bravery has been awarded to crew member Graham Raines of the Hayling Island lifeboat crew following a very difficult rescue involving two...