LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Mechanical Digger
Driver saved from sinking digger Helensburgh - Scotland South Division Helensburgh's Atlantic 21 carried out an unusual rescue on 29 May 1989 when a survivor was safely landed from a mechanical digger which had become bogged down with a...
The Admiralty Torpedo Craft C.T.21 (1)
JANUARY 23RD. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN, AND PORTRUSH, CO. ANTRIM At 2.6 in the afternoon the Bangor coastguard reported a vessel in distress off Ballywhlskin.
There was a thick fog, but the sea was...
The Ferry Nordic Ferry (2)
Ferry fire puts all emergency services on alert at Harwich Harwich, Walton andFrinton and Aldeburgh East and South East Divisions Four lifeboats, three helicopters, three tugs and a harbour launch were despatched to the passenger and cargo...
Ada
BOAT FOUND AFTER ALL-NIGHT SEARCH Workington, Cumberland. At 9.10 on the evening of the 15th March, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Ada was overdue and asked for the life-boat to stand by. At 9.21...
The S.S. Graiglas
DECEMBER 3RD. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM, AND TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE.
At 4.56 in the morning the coastguard telephoned the life-boat station that two vessels appeared to be in danger, and twenty minutes later he asked that the life...
The S.S. Charles Parsons
DECEMBER 25TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM. At 6.50 P.M. on Christmas Day information was received, through the coastguard, that distress signals had been seen, and the life-boat crew were assembled. At 7.35 P.M. the naval authorities reported that...
Fourteen Men Rescued from Motor Vessel
COXSWAIN William Harland of Whitby has been accorded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum for the rescue of the crew of fourteen of the motor vessel Fred Everard of London on 2yth November, 1965.
The honorary...
Category: Services
May Flower
On Sunday evening, 9th March, at about half-past six o'clock, the pilots on the look-out discovered a small steamer to the S. of the harbour. A heavy gale from S.S.E. was blowing at the time, and the sea was rapidly increasing. The...
Contents
Contents Volume XLVIII Number 482 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOI.L Director and Secretary: REAR ADMIRAL W. J. GRAHAM, CB MNI Notes of the Quarter Long Service Awards.
Lifeboat Services.
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Life-Boat Families. The Cables of Aldeburgh, Suffolk
By Walter Riggs, Hon. Secretary of the Aldeburgh Branch.
THERE has been a Life-boat Station at Aldeburgh in Suffolk for over a century.
The earliest record of it which the Institution has, is that in...
Category: Articles