LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dear reader
With the passing of the equinox, the temptation can grow to withdraw into the Autumnal gloom. But if you curl up for a good read with this issue of the Lifeboat,you will find yourself transported across land, sea and time.
Category: Articles
Walborg and H.M. Trawler Melbourne
FEBRUARY 15TH. - TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 10.30 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a collision had occurred between two vessels, off the Spanish Battery Point, and that the Swedish steamer Walborg, of Stockholm, had...
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FEBRUARY 5TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. A request for the help of the life-boat was received from a.
medical officer at Pennan. He had a woman patient whom he wanted to send at once to the Fraserburgh hospital, but she...
Here and There
Dunkirk pilgrimage When 30 of the Association of Dunkirk Little Ships sailed from Ramsgate for Dunkirk on May 30 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the evacuation, they were accompanied by the new 52ft Arun relief lifeboat Edith Emilie,...
Category: Articles
Services of Life-Boats
HAUXLEY, NORTHUMBERLAND.—On the 5th of January, 1854, the brig Earl of Newburgh, of Shields, coal laden, brought up in a sinking state in Coquet Roads, the wind blowing a gale from the eastward at the time. The danger to her crew being...
Category: Services
Harbour Rescue In Darkness
COXSWAIN/MECHANIC Eric T. Offer, of Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, has been awarded the bronze medal of the Institution for a shore boat service in which he rescued two men who got into difficulties at night in the harbour.
At...
Category: Services
Fidget
Yacht sinks in gale THE 30ft yacht. Fidget, of stout construction, was on passage from Gosport to Plymouth on the morning of Sunday August 11, 1985, when she hit a huge crest south of Gara Rock, near Salcombe.
Within one...
Obituary: Richard Evans BEM
Richard Evans BEM: a legendary lifeboatman It is with great sadness that theLifeboat reports the death of Richard Evans, aged 96, coxswain of Moelfre lifeboat from 1954 to 1970 and holder of two RNLl Gold Medals.
As well as...
Category: Obituaries
SPECIAL DELIVERY
PRINCESS VICTORIA
Our feature on the Princess Victoria disaster in the spring issue evoked some memories for readers:
Pamela Miley writes:
Your article on the Princess Victoria brought back memories...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
The Lifeboat Relief Atlantic 75 (B705) The Vera Skilton The Crew Tfignks on Vellum Helmsman Wayne Martin for his 'boat handling skill.
judgement and leadership.' '...[he] handled the Atlantic 75 expertlv...'...
Category: Services