LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Loss of friends
Here at the RNLI we’re sorry to report the death of Trevor Grills, singer with the shanty group Fisherman’s Friends. He died on 11 February, after being injured in an accident at a concert venue that also killed the manager of the group,...
Category: Articles
The Armed Patrol Yacht Boyne Water
FEBRUARY 29TH. - PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
At 2.45 P.M. the armed patrol yacht Boyne Water, which was anchored in St. Tudwalls Roads, signalled for a doctor, and Dr. Lloyd Hughes, of Abersoch, asked the life-boat to take...
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NOV. 23RD. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
A message had been received from the coastguard that a man in a life-buoy had been seen floating two miles off Shingle Street coastguard station. It was not known whether he was alive or...
Oljaren
Longhope, Orkneys.—At 12.38 on the morning of the 12th of April, 1951, the motor tanker Oljaren, of Gothenburg, bound for Stockholm from Curacoa with diesel oil, wirelessed that she had gone aground on Muckle Skerry in the Pentland Firth. At...
The S.S. Empire Tigaven and The S.S. Cormoat (1)
DECEMBER 13TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, AND FILEY, YORKSHIRE. During a northwesterly gale, with a very rough sea, the S.S.
Empire Tigaven and the S.S. Cormoat came into collision about four miles off Flamborough.
A...
Aloma
Portrush, Co. Antrim; Campbeltown, Argyllshire; and Donaghadee, Co. Down.
—On the morning of the 12th of July, 1952, a man, together with his wife and two sons, were cruising off the coast of County Antrim in the...
Rumania and the S.S. Loide-Honduras
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 7.35 on the morning of the llth of February, 1956, the motor mechanic heard a distress message on his wireless set from the tug Rumania. The tug said that she was aground on the Long Sand and needed help. At...
Alpheus Marshall
BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, ISLE of WIGHT.
— On the 9th February, the barque Alpheus Marshall, of Digby, N.S., bound from New York to London, with a general cargo, went ashore on Atherfield Ledge during a fog. The wind was blowing...
(Below) the RNLI's President, Hrh the Duke of Kent
(below) The RNLI's President, HRH The Duke of Kent, accompanied by Chairman David Acland (right) visits the Sea Safety display at the Barbican. The announcement of the coast-wide launch of SEA Check was one of this year's main... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Crimond
The motor Life- boat John Ryburn performed a very good service in the early hours of the morning of 10th February. Between 1 and 2 o'clock an urgent call came from Sanday for the Life-boat to proceed to a vessel which had stranded on the...