LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Neco Marine Ltd
Automatic Pilot To hold a set course in most conditions Repeater Compass For easy reading and optimum siting Electric Capstan Push-button control of 650 Ibs pull Anchor Windlass 1,600 Ibs pull from 12-220 volt D.C. supply Dinghy Hoists For...
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A British Airways Helicopter
Ditched helicopter WHEN ON THURSDAY July 31, 1980, Aberdeen Coastguard heard at 1213 that a British Airways helicopter returning from an oil rig in the Clyde Field with 15 people on board had ditched in the sea a 'mayday' relay was...
Benimora
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At ten o'clock on the night of the 7th of September, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was overdue on passage from Milford Haven to Fishguard and that a woman had reported...
The S.S. Galleon & Oscar Gorthon
The s.s. Castle Galleon, of Newcastle, while bound for Dieppe from Blyth laden with coal, came into collision with the Swedish steamer Oscar Gorthon during a dense fog at 9.20 on the morning of 2nd June, about three miles S.S.W. of the Cross...
New Ways of Raising Money
King Edward's School, Birmingham, has a voluntary ink fund in charge of the geography master. Early this year the school sent the Institution a postal order for us. 6d. - the ink fund takings over a period of several...
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General San Martin
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 1.4 on the afternoon of the 17th of April, 1956, the Formby coastguard rang up to say that the tanker General San Martin, of Buenos Aires, had reported that several of her crew had been gassed.
Two Rubber Dinghies (1)
SEPTEMBER 27TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
At 4.30 in the afternoon the Colwyn Bay police reported two men drifting out to sea on rubber dinghies. A southerly breeze was blowing, and the sea was choppy. The motor...
P. M. Willcock
.—At 3.10A.M.
on the 28th March the Coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore in Youghal Bay, about three miles to the S.W. of the station. A strong S.E.
gale prevailed at the time, with a very heavy...
Obituary
THE Institution has to deplore a very great loss in the death of Miss JANE HAY, the Honorary Secretary of the St. Abbs Station, which took place on the 26th January last. Miss Hay was a remarkable personality, who united a strong love of her...
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Cliff-climbing lifeboatman saves boy Lifeboat crews are highly trained in many fields so they will be prepared when out on a shout. But there are a few services where RNLI training cannot help, where it is up to the individual to do...