LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Advice to Yachtsmen
[The following notes on rescues by helicopter have been issued by the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation for the guidance of yachtsmen.] AT present three types of helicopter are used for sea rescue work around the coasts of the United...
Category: Articles
Reform of the Mercantile Marine
A VERY remarkable change in public opinion on the subject of the British mercantile marine has been wrought within the last few years; and none of the current topics of the day engross so large a share of the grave interest of reformers,...
Category: Articles
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Arranmore, Co. Donegal. On the 1st of January, 1959, the body of a young man from Arranmore, who had been killed in an accident in Wales, was brought to Burtonport, but because of the stormy weather it was not possible to take the...
Secretary of the Institution
THE Committee of Management, at their meeting on the llth August last, appointed George F. Shee, M.A., Secre- tary of the Institution in succession to the late Mr. Charles Dibdin. Mr. Shee was educated at Stonyhurst and at the University of...
Category: Committee
Moronel
TOW LASTED 13 HOURS AT 8.10 a.m. on 11 March, 1972, the St. Mary's, Scilly Isles, life-boat station learnt that the yacht Moronel had requested assistance 13 miles from Bishop Rock. The maroons were fired at 8.22...
Gale of 25th and 26th Sept., 1851
SOME record, although brief, of our hea- viest storms may prove useful for reference at some future day, when the whole subject of shipwreck comes to be inquired into, as sooner or later it must. The disastrous gale of September last, which...
Category: Articles
Maggie
The Life-boat Henry Vernon was despatched at 8.30 A.M. on the 18th January to the assistance of the brigantine Maggie A., of Poole, which was sighted about that time making for the river. A strong gale was blowing with a very heavy sea, and...
The Swedish Training Ships Falken and Gladan and Jinty
Torbay, Devon.—On the evening of the 7th of August, 1948, a sudden gale got up from the south-east, and anxiety was felt for the crews of the two Swedish training ships Falken and Gladan,. anchored off Paignjon for the yacht racing in Torbay...
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,...
Helmsman Alan Clarke of Hunstanton - a Bar to the Bronze Medal
Helmsman Alan Clarke of Hunstanton - a bar to the Bronze medal. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs