LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Jim Turreff,
Jim Turreff, crew member and emergency mechanic at Alderney lifeboat station was recently awarded the City and Guilds Bronze Medal for excellence for the 2440 Marine Craft Competences Part two - the only student in the UK and Ireland to... - View image in PDF
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New birth for Oban lifeboat!Oban's new Trent had been on service for less than three weeks when her services were first officially recognised - by the naming of a baby!baby! The Trent, Mora Edith Macdonald, received her 'award'...
S.S. Registan
MAY 27TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
S.S. Registan, an auxiliary cruiser, was attacked and set on fire by four enemy aeroplanes, but the survivors were picked up by a motor boat from Sennen Cove and by...
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MAY 1 3TH. - ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE.
The body of an airman had been seen floating in the sea and at 4.25 in the afternoon the motor life-boat Annie Ronald and Isabella Forrest was launched. A moderate E.N.E. wind was...
Three Aeroplanes
JULY 10TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT. Information had been received that three aeroplanes had fallen into the sea. Many the men were away fishing, but a crewwas obtained, and with the help of women the life-boat was launched. At the time an attack...
Wittezee
NOVEMBER 12TH. - THE MUMBLES GLAMORGANSHIRE. The Dutch motor vessel Wittezee, of Rotterdarn, stranded below Port Eynon Point. The life-boat went out at 9 A.M., three-quarters of an hour after she had returned from the service of the day...
S.S. Storfors
FEBRUARY 28TH . - AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND.
The Swedish S.S. Storfors, of Uddeholm, had been sunk in collision, and her crew had taken to the boats. They were seen to overturn, but. only an overcoat was found. Later it was...
The S.S. Aries
The No. 2.
Life-boat Matthew Middlewood was called out on the 16th October by signals of distress from a vessel close to the headland. When the Life-boat reached the vessel she was found to be the s.s. Aries, bound from...
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Longhope, Orkney - At 1.45 p.m.
on ist November, 1966 the honorary secretary received from the local doctor an urgent request for the services of the life-boat to convey a very seriously ill patient to Balfour hospital,...
The Helwick Lightvessel (1)
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 21st of December, 1959, the life-boat Henry Comber Brown was returning to her station from an exercise, during which she had taken Christmas parcels to the Helwick and St....