LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Guiding Light
Tynemouth, Northumberland - At 11.25 a.m. on I2th May, 1967, it was learned that the coble Guiding Light with a man and a young boy on board was overdue from a fishing trip. The coastguard searched to the limit of visibility but could not...
The Survey Ship H.M.S. Echo
UNSUCCESSFUL SEARCH Margate, Kent. At 3.41 p.m. on ist April, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two men had been lost overboard from the survey ship H.M.S. Echo in the Edinburgh Channel off the North East Shingles...
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Three days later, on Wednesday July 30, a message came to the honorary secretary from the Coastguard at 1400 that a bather was in difficulties off Cowden, eight miles to the north. The D class inflatable lifeboat was launched by 1413, manned...
Gava
Longhope, Orkneys.—At 10.30 on the night of the llth of April, 1955, the Kirkwall coastguard rang up to say that the steam trawler Gava, of Aber- deen, wrhich had a crew of thirteen, had reported that she had gone ashore at Duncansby Head....
Hermiston
The steamer Hermiston, of Glasgow, whilst bound from Antwerp to Shields in ballast, stranded on the north cheek of Robin Hood's Bay on the 19th May.
There was a dense fog at the time, with a light breeze and moderate...
Marske Fisherman's Choir Founded Simply to Give Pleasure to Others Has Made a Second Lp Record In Aid of the Lifeboat Service the Record from the Profits of Which
Marske Fisherman's Choir, founded simply to give pleasure to others, has made a second LP record in aid of the lifeboat service. The record, from the profits of which it is hoped to fund an inshore lifeboat, is available from A. M. Lloyd... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cover Picture
The crew of St Peter Port, Guernsey, 52ft Arun class lifeboat Sir William Arnold who, on December 13, 1981, in winds gusting to hurricane force rescued 29 people from the Ecuadorian motor vessel Bonita (see page 77). It was a service for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Maid Marion
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 9.18 p.m. on 6th January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing boat with four men on board was overdue. At 9.45 the life-boat Edian Courtauld proceeded to search for the fishing...
Tahchee, of Panama
Penlee, Cornwall - At 6 p.m. on ist August, 1967, the coxswain was informed by the honorary secretary that two seriously injured men aboard the tanker Tahchee of Panama required hospital treatment. A rendezvous was arranged for 8 o'clock...
Girvan Centenary
The centenary commemoration of the Girvan branch was held at Girvan harbour on 2 ist July, 1965, when the centenary vellum was presented by Captain Alexander Ramsay of Mar, M.A., F.L.A.S., chairman of the executive committee of the Scottish...
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