LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
American Ship Breaks In Two
AT 5.18 on the afternoon of the 20th of August, 1952, a Liberian ship wire- lessed that the S.S. Western Farmer, of New York, on passage from Norfolk (Virginia) to Bremen with a cargo of coal, had been in collision with the Norwegian tanker...
Category: Services
The S.S. Windsor Queen
Amble, Northumberland.—In the late afternoon of the 21st of July, 1948, the coastguard reported that the s.s. Wind- sor Queen, of London, which was off Coquet Island, had an injured man on board, and the motor life-boat Elizabeth Newton, on...
Spinal Board
DonnchúWhen a climber was seriously injured in a fall at Aberdour on 9 February, Kinghorn’s Atlantic 75 lifeboat Frederick Robertson was on the scene within 15 minutes. The crew requested the help of an RAF helicopter to get the man...
Category: Articles
Dona Marika
Tanker aground A MESSAGE came to the Angle (Pembrokeshire) honorary secretary from St Anne's Head Coastguard at 9.8 p.m.
on August 5, 1973, to say that the oil tanker Dona Marika had run aground on Wooltack Point,...
Captain John Williams, Aberdovey
Captain John Williams, F.R.A.S., F.R.G.S., who died on 6th December, 1937, at the age of seventy-two, had been the Institution's honorary sec- retary and treasurer at Aberdovey since 1925, first of the station, and, when it was closed in...
Category: Obituaries
Mr C E Link
Mr. Charles Ernest Link, who in 1963 received the highest award the R.N.L.I.
can make to an honorary worker, appointment as Honorary Life Governor, died on 29th July, 1969. For many years he worked tirelessly for the...
Category: Obituaries
Al Kwather I
Arduous service for two lifeboats called to Ro-Ro ferry in severe weatherCoxswain David Kennett of Yarmouth lifeboat has been awarded the Institution's Bronze medal for gallantry for the rescue of two men from a merchant vessel in winds...
Notes of the Quarter By the Editor
IN THE EARLY HOURS of November 30, 1973, the motor vessel Burtonia sank off the east coast of England with the loss of four lives. Three men were picked up by another motor vessel and one by Aldeburgh lifeboat. The Aldeburgh and Lowestoft...
Category: Articles
Esmerelda
SCARBOROUGH.—On the 18th February, the fishing smack Esmerdlda, of Grimsby, was, owing to there being no wind and a very strong sea, driven helplessly towards the shore a little to the N. of Cay ton Bay.
Her signal of...
City of Dublin
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—On the evening of the 8th January the steamer City of Dublin, of Dublin, bound home from Hamburg with a general cargo, ran aground on Arldow Main Bank, about five miles north of the light-vessel.
A...