LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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At 3.40 p.m. on I5th October, 1966, a patient required urgent hospital treatment.
The life-boat John Gellatly Hyndman with the patient and a nurse on board proceeded at 4.15. The tide was ebbing. The life-boat reached...
The S.S. Rosso, of Stockholm (2)
Montrose, and Broughty Ferry, Angus, Eyemouth, Berwickshire, and Gourdon,Kincardineshire.—At 4.52 in the after- noon of the 7th of March, 1952, the S.S. Rosso, of Stockholm, bound for Sweden from Methie, wirelessed that she was leaking...
H.M.M.S. 106
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT LOWESTOFT SEPTEMBER 30TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. At 9.40 in the evening the naval authorities asked that the motor life-boat Michael Stephens should go out to the help of a vessel which was ashore about one and a half...
The Decoration of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
LIST OF PERSONS on whom the Committee of Management have conferred (prior to 31st December, 1906) the Decoration of the Institution for conspicuous and special services in the Life-boat cause other than actual personal...
Category: Awards
La Morlaye
Rescue in the surf SILVER MEDAL A CALL CAME THROUGH to Tyne Tees Coastguard at 0101 on the morning of Saturday April 15, 1986, that a disabled fishing vessel, the 60ft La Morlaye, with three men on board, was in danger of going aground just...
The Scottish Life-Boat Council
THE Scottish Council held the first of its meetings for 1928 on 26th March, in Glasgow. The Duke of Montrose, C.B., C.V.O., V.D., Chairman of the Council, presided, and there were representatives present from Glasgow, Buckie, Perth, Greenock...
Category: Meetings
Failsafe Part 1- Capsizing and Righting By James Paffett Rcnc Ceng Frina Honfni Frsa Chairman of the Technical Consultative Committee
ON APRIL 10, 1983, Salcombe's 47ft Watson lifeboat The Baltic Exchange, searching for missing divers at the southern end of Start Bay, was hit by mountainous seas in a force 11 storm.
The first of two tremendous seas, a...
Category: Articles
Laity F. (1)
Tug on fire THAMES COASTGUARD informed Southend- on-Sea lifeboat station at 1130 on Saturday March 21, 1981. that the tug Laity Fwas on fire near No 3 Sea Reach Buoy. The crew assembled and took the transport down Southend Pier and at 1148...
Fydlyn Bay
Holyhead, Anglesey - At 9.10 p.m.
on I4th May, 1967, information was received that the motor fishing vessel Fydlyn Bay, on passage from Morecambe Bay to Holyhead, had developed engine trouble but was expected to arrive at 2...
Deike Rickmers
WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE.—One of the last Life-boat Services of the past year (1884) was that performed by The Honourable Artillery Company boat, which had only been stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION at Walton-on-the-Naze about two...