LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Offshore Lifeboat Services March April and May 1978
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire March 16 and 19 Aldeburgh, Suffolk May 7 Amble, Northumberland May 7 Anstruther, Fife May 18 Arbroath, Angus March 18 Arklow, Co. Wicklow April 7 Baltimore, Co. Cork May 30 Barry Dock, South Glamorgan March 20 (twice)...
Category: Services
A Tug
6th March. A tug stranded and her crew jumped on to the breakwater, from which they were landed by a pilot cutter's boat.— Rewards, £13 11s. 6d..
A Rowing Boat
Cullercoats, Northumberland.—-At 4.45 in the afternoon of the 19th of March, 1950, the Tynemouth coast- guard telephoned that two men ap- peared to be in difficulties in a rowing boat two and a half miles to the east- ward. At 4.50 the...
Amsterdam, of Sunderland
On the 8th March, a large ship, in attempting to make the River Tees, struck heavily on the Bar, and immediately showed signals of distress.
Soon afterwards she drifted on to the North Gare Sandbank. The wind was blowing...
A Dinghy (1)
DIFFICULT RESCUE FROM ROCK THE Pwllheli life-boat and the Abersoch ILB, stationed on the Caernarvonshire coast, answered a call on 25th June, 1972, when two men in a motor boat were reported overdue.
The search started when...
Awards to Honorary Workers
Honorary Life-Governor.
Lieut.-Commander HENDRIK DE BOOY has been appointed an honorary life-governor of-the Institution in recognition of his eminent services to the cause of life-saving at sea during the period of...
Category: Awards
An Aeroplane (19)
SEPT. 18TH. - ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE.
At one in the morning it was reported that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea. She sank just after the life-boat reached her. There was no sign of her crew. The life-boat again searched...
Two Fishing Boats (1)
OCTOBER 11TH - 12TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE, AND LYTHAM-ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. On the night of the 11th the New Brighton No. 1 motor life-boat was launched, in very bad weather, to search for two overdue fishing boats. She could not find...
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Category: Advertisement
Merc Texco
Hurricane launch NEWS THAT MV Merc Texco had a badly injured man to be landed led to the launching of the Dungeness lifeboat, Mabel E. Holland, a 42' Watson beach class, at 1658 on February 11.
The wind was south south...