LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
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Category: Medals
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Troon, Ayrshire.—At 10 P.M. on the 19th February, 1938, the harbour look-out reported that a fishing boat had not returned as expected. Later a mast-light was seen, and as it was stationary, the motor life-boat Sir David Richmond of Glasgow...
Safely Ashore - Two
Safely ashore - two. Three weeks after the St Peter Port incident the 60ft fishing vessel Avalon II was in collision with a large tanker on 28 January, sinking while the Torbay lifeboat was on her way to the scene.
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Category: Photographs
The Ferry Speedlink Vanguard and Pirate Radio Ship Ross Revenge (1)
January storm ON SUNDAY JANUARY 6, 1985, northnorth- easterly winds of force 9 to storm force 10 hit the east coast and at 1812 that evening a message was received from the Sealink roll-on roll-off ferry, Speedlink Vanguard, that she had...
Four Vellums Awarded to Crew Members
AT 1.25 on the afternoon of the 15th August, 1961, the Cromer coastguard received a message from the coastguard look-out at Cley that a motor yacht was burning a smoke distress flare some four to five miles north-east-by- east of the...
Category: Services
Daffrobani
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.— At 11.56 on the morning of Sunday, the 1st of October, 1950, the life-boatWilliam Gammon, Manchester and Dis- trict XXX was at sea for adjustments to her wireless equipment when the coastguard announced that a...
Daisy Picker
Fenit, Co. Kerry.—At 5.30 on the afternoon of the 1-lth of September, 1955, the honorary secretary noticed that the fishing boat Daisy Picker, of Tralee, was towing a raft towards Upper Tralee Bay. The tide was ebbing strongly, and half-way...
Providence
The ketch Providence, of Goole, bound from Hull to Wells with a cargo of oil cake, parted her anchors during a strong N.N.E.
gale when off the bar, on the 1st April.
Signals of distress were hoisted, and...
Two Whitby Cobles, the Mary Alice and the Tranquil
WHITBY.— Two Whitby cobles, the Mary Alice and the Tranquil, which were returning from the fishing-ground in a light wind and a strong sea on the 12th March, were seen in the offing, and as it was evident that they would run considerable...
Confide
Cloughey, Co. Down. At 5.5 on the afternoon of the 8th of October, 1959, the police at Portaferry informed the honorary secretary that flares had been seen off Strangford bar. At 5.30 the life-boat Constance Calverley was launched in a...