LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Capsize on Loch Ness
Rough conditions on Loch Ness proved too much for a pair of experienced sailors on 12 August. When their dinghy capsized, they were not able to right her as her mast had got stuck on submerged rocks. A passing research and tourist vessel...
Category: Articles
Rubbish Recovered from the Bottom of the River Cam Raised £500 In Sponsorship Half of Which Was Donated to the Rnli; the Sub Aqua Junk Hunters Were Members of Cambridge University's
Rubbish recovered from the bottom of the River Cam raised £500 in sponsorship, half of which was donated to the RNLI; the sub aqua junk hunters were members of Cambridge University's Underwater Exploration Group whose haul included... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Devotion
Dunbar, East Lothian. At 11.36 on the morning of the 23rd of May, 1960.
the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Devotion of Dunbar had fouled her propeller off the South Carr beacon and...
Tamar
Falmouth, Cornwall. At 8.18 p.m.
on i2th August, 1965, the police said that a small yacht, Tamar, required assistance off Swanpool Beach. Her engine had broken down. The life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott, on temporary...
Lifting Craft No. 17
SEPTEMBER 3RD. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX.
At 3 P.M. the naval authorities asked for the life-boat to be launched as lifting craft No. 17 had broken loose from moorings at the mouth of the harbour, where she was being used on...
Mark H. Leach
HELPLESS WITH BROKEN RUDDER Peterhead, Aberdeenihire.—At about 4.30 in the morning of the 1st of November, 1947, the coastguard re- ported that a vessel was burning flares three miles south-east by east of the coastguard station, and the...
The Motor Fishing Vessels Elegant and Iris
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 2.56 on the afternoon of the 23rd of October, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Elegant was standing by the motor fishing vessel Iris of Buckle, which was leaking...
Trust On, of Peterhead
JANUARY 31ST. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 5.30 in the evening, the coastguard reported a boat showing distress signals a mile and a half north of Peterhead, and the motor life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was...
Award for Bravest Act of Lifesaving
THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving by a member of a life- boat crew in 1959 has been won by Coxswain Richard Evans of Moelfre for the rescue of the crew of the coaster Hindlea, which went aground in a hurricane on the...
Category: Awards