LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
5. Aberdeen's Bon Accord No,1
5. Aberdeen's Bon Accord No,1 North Country class lifeboat shares its name with the station's current Severn class lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Crystal Clean
Prawn trawler Crystal Star started taking on water in the Irish Sea on 18 March and lifeboats from Kilkeel (B class Frank William Walton) and Port St Mary (Trent class Gough Ritchie II) were launched to her aid.
Kilkeel...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (128)
SEPTEMBER 11TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
At 4.24 P.M. an aeroplane had been seen to crash into the sea three miles north of the life-boathouse, but only oil on the water was found, and a bright green patch showing that it was a...
Lifeboat Services
North Western Division Storm A YACHT IN DISTRESS 23 nautical miles south west of Skerries Lighthouse was reported to the honorary secretary of Holyhead lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1310 on Saturday, September 11, 1976. The bulk...
Category: Services
Lifeboat Services
The Lifeboat Atlantic 75 B-713 OEM Stone I Aisisting Lifeboat Trent class ON-1211 Geoige and Ivy Swanson The Crew gfgnza Medal Helmsman David Parry for his 'outstanding courage.
seamanship and...
Category: Services
Happy People: Rescued Two and Saved Boat
TWO MEN had been spending Sunday January 16 fishing off the western end of the Isle of Wight in an open 17ft dory. When, at 1530, they started to prepare for the return passage to Poole, their outboard engine failed. They were reported...
Category: Articles
The Toaster on the Left - the One With Rnli On
The toaster on the left - the one with RNLI on it - won the golden toaster award (the more conventional one on the right) in Noel Edmonds' Late Late Breakfast Show on BBC TV. The country's most powerful toaster, capable of shooting a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Motor Vessel Aground Off the Irish Coast
ON the 22nd October, 1961, the motor vessel Halronell, on passage from New- port, Monmouthshire, to Haulbowline, Co. Cork, encountered heavy weather off the Coningbeg lightvessel, and her bridge was damaged. Her master deci- ded to return to...
Category: Services
The S.S. Freden, of Stockholm
SEPTEMBER 21ST. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 3.18 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that the S.S. Freden, of Stockholm, was making for Yarmouth Roads and had asked for a doctor, as the captain was injured. A light...
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AUGUST 1ST. - HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 4.14 P.M. the coastguard telephoned that the Longstone Lighthouse had been bombed by a German aeroplane and that the life-boat was required.
A fresh northerly...