LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Marks and Spencer
On the day that Murks and Spencer opened up its new first floor sti/es area in Pottle, a cheque for £10,000 was handed over to the RNLI and the store also helped faithful customer Mrs Lucy Baker celebrate her y/.v/ birlhdav. The company... - View image in PDF
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Al Mor
Over marshes AT ABOUT 1630 on Wednesday December 17, 1980, Alan Coster, assistant harbour master at Lymington and a member of the lifeboat crew, received a telephone call from the Sealink offices, Lymington, with information relayed from a...
Frej
Whitehills, and Buckie, Banffshire.— While bound from Narvik to Working- ton, with a cargo of iron ore, and a crew of 28, the Swedish steamer Frej, of Stockholm, met heavy weather and sheltered in Banff Bay. At 3.20 on the morning...
S.S.. Princess, H.M. Trawler Dandora
JANUARY 11TH . - ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At 5.45 A.M. a message was received from the Croyde Coastguard that distress signals had been received from the S.S.. Princess, in a position near Elwill Bay.
An easterly breeze was...
A Launch (1)
On trials...
but on service Baltic Exchange II, a brand new Tyne carrying out engine trials before going on station at Salcombe, came to the aid of Ramsgate's harbourmaster on Saturday 30 July.
The...
The Chemical Tanker Multitank Ascania (1)
Environmental disaster prevented Bronze medal for Thurso Coxswain and awards to Thurso and Longhope crewsThurso lifeboat Coxswain William Farquhar has been awarded the RNLI's Bronze Medal for bravery for his part in an incident involving...
John Mikle
The steam trawler John Meikle, of North Shields, when homeward bound from fishing on the 13th October, stranded half a mile to the north of Newbiggin Point, in a very heavy fog, a moderate S.E. gale and rough sea. Information of the casualty...
Vivetta and a Naval Cutter of H.M.S. Ganges
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 11.47 on the morning of the 23rd of July, 1950, while racing was in progress, the coastguard transmitted a message re- ceived from the Cork lightvessel. A yacht two to three miles to the north- east, was in...
R.A.F. High Speed Launch 124
JANUARY 23RD. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 8.15 P.M. flag officer in charge Great Yarmouth asked, through the coastguard, for the services of the life-boat for R.A.F. High Speed Launch 124, which was aground on Scroby Sands...
Visits to Fund Raisers While Anthony Oliver Dos (Southern) Was Calling on Lock-Keeper Lyn David and His Wife (I) at Marsh Lock Henley-On-Thames the Chief Inspec
Visits to fund raisers . . . While Anthony Oliver, DOS (Southern) was calling on lock-keeper, Lyn David, and his wife (I.) at Marsh Lock, Henley-on-Thames, the Chief Inspector of Navigation, Thames Water Authority, Mr D. Cruickshank, passed... - View image in PDF
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