LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE following is the list of effective donations received from the owners.

services canied out during the first The list does not include any -services four months of 1927, with the names of where salvage has been paid to...

The following extract was taken from a paper presented to the ninth international life-boat conference in Edinburgh, 1963, by Lieut.-Commander Robert W. Witter, Chief, Boat Section, Naval Engineering Division, United States Coast Guard.<...

Injured crew DURING THE AFTERNOON of Friday OctOber 9, 1981, the 38,000 ton Danish container vessel Dragor Maersk, on passage from Hamburg to Port Said, told east coast radio stations that a crew member with a fractured hip needed to be...

Broken rudder THE YACHT Concerto, in difficulties ten miles north of Round Island, was reported to the honorary secretary of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, lifeboat station by Falmouth Coastguard at 1618 on Tuesday June 22, 1982. Maroons...

FOR a service, in which he had to take his life-boat through a narrow, unchartered channel, infested with rocks, to a trawler whose bow was hard aground, Coxswain John Nicolson of Aith, Shetlands, has been awarded the R.N.L.I.'s silver...

Aground in gully THE DUTY ASSISTANT HARBOUR MASTER at St Peter Port, who is a deputy launching authority (DLA) of the lifeboat station, was informed by the Signal Station at 0428 on Tuesday October 11, 1983, that the French yacht Wild Rocket...

Fishing boats wrecked TWO GERMAN STUDENTS, walking on the cliffs near Breil Nook on Flamborough Head on the morning of Monday, May7, 1984, smelt diesel oil and, looking into the water, saw what appeared to be the overturned hull of a...

Drama after the draw! The former Beirut hostage, John McCarthy, and comedienne Sandi Toksvig drew a massive crowd to Weymouth's harbourside when they kept a promise to the RNLI to pick the winning tickets in the 66th National Lottery.<...