LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Darlwin (3)
Falmouth, Coverack, Fowey, Cornwall and Salcombe Devon - At 5.37 a.m. on ist August, 1966, the Coastguard requested the Falmouth coxswain to launch the life-boat to search for the motor cruiser Darlwin which had been reported overdue. The...
Inshore Lifeboat Services March April and May 1976
Aberdovey, Gwynedd March 21, 24, April 17, 19 and 23.
Abersoch, Gwynedd April 13.
Aberystwyth, Dyfed April 27 (twice).Arran, Strathclyde May 29.
Atlantic College, South Glamorgan March 17...
Category: Services
New Scottish, Irish and English Life-Boats
NEW life-boats in Scotland, Ireland and England—at Longhope in the Orkneys, at Howth in the Irish Republic, and at Weston-super-Mare in Somerset—were named during the last quarter.
The money to build the Longhope life-boat...
Category: Inaugurations
Letters
Lifeboat development • I was interested to read Captain Williamson Jones' letter in THE LIFEBOAT for July (page 8). I would like to make the following points: 1—My article was a reprint from the Yachting World where it was headed...
Category: Correspondence
A Small Boat belonging to the Norwegian Steam Trawler Shetland
Longhope, Orkney.—29th June. A small boat, belonging to the Norwegian steam trawler Shetland, of Haugsund, which had foundered, was in distress, but a trawler rescued her crew.—• Rewards, £4 19s. 6d..
A Speed Boat
Joint rescue saves water-skiersOn Saturday, 8 September 2001, three lifeboats, two helicopters and two cliff rescue teams were called out to rescue three people from a speedboat that had capsized in a notoriously dangerous area. The wind was...
Coxswain William Farqhar. Thurso
Coxswain William Farqhar. Thurso Received the Bronze Medal l"t In- •...outstanding skill .mil seamanship...' during a sen ice to a hiirmnj; chemical lanker. which helped to prevent u major I'Lulnyical disaster.
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Services from Page 230
from page 230 the trawler. He was landed at Walney Airfield at 0102 and transferred to North Lonsdale Hospital.
The honorary medical adviser and two lifeboat crew members remained aboard the trawler because of the sea...
Category: Services
To Give His Mg
To give his MG. TC, the bodvwork of which he had been re-building, a 'jolly good thrudging', Bob Shaw suggested a run from John O Groats to Land's End in aid of the lifeboats; Ian Horsefield said he would go along as second... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs