LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (167)
NOVEMBER 2ND. - MINEHEAD, SOMERSET.
An aeroplane was reported to have crashed into the sea. With the help of soldiers the life-boat was launched, but shefound nothing, and articles subsequently washed ashore proved the...
A Motor Vessel (1)
DECEMBER 13TH. - PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE. An SOS had been received from a motor vessel on fire off Corsewall Point, but the fire was got under control, the injured members of the crew were taken off by a motor launch, and tugs arrived to...
Wind power in Shetland
The RNLI has installed its first station wind turbine, at Aith, Shetland – the charity’s most northerly lifeboat station. The turbine, a 20kW Westwind unit, was switched on in the Autumn of 2009 and should generate around 40,000kWh a...
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Graces, of Shields
On the 12th December the Thurso life-boat rescued the crew of 15 men from the barque Graces, of Shields, which was dragging her anchors in Thurso Bay, and had hoisted a signal of distress.
In Loving Memory
In loving memory Six of the parents whose sons were lost off Land's End during Easter, 1985, have presented a cheque for £52,000 to Rear Admiral W. J. Graham, director, at RNLI Headquarters.
The money, which was...
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Contents
News and Views The latest news from and about the RNLI Lifeboat Services 10 Including one Bronze and three Vellum winning rescues Meeting place The Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards at the Barbican Headcase 20 The RNLI leads...
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Londesborough
PALLING, NORFOLK.—In response to signals of distress, during thick weather, a moderate breeze from the S.W., and a rough sea, the Life-boat British Workman was launched, at 8.30 A.M. on the 31st December, and proceeded to the Hasborongh Sand...
Bertha Jane
FISHING BOAT WITH FOULED PROPELLER Stromness, Orkneys.—At 4.27 in the afternoon of January 27th, 1947, a fishing boat was seen making distress signals near the Kirk Rocks in Hoy Sound. The breeze, from the south- west, was light, but...
Nyria
MOTOR PLEASURE-BOAT BROKEN DOWN Torbay, Devon.—At 6.43 in the evening of the 7th of April, 1947, the Brixham coastguard reported that a motor pleasure boat had broken down three miles off Berry Head and was making signals of distress. A...
King Alexander
Penlee, Cornwall - At 6 p.m. on 23rd June, 1967, a message was received that there was an injured man on board the motor vessel King Alexander and that help would be required when the vessel entered Mount's Bay. The life-boat Solomon...