LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Llunelli Asc Organised a Sponsored Sea Swim In August and Raised £145 £80 of Which Was Raised By Susan Roach Who Presented the Cheque to Mrs Dorothy William
Llunelli ASC organised a sponsored sea swim in August and raised £145, £80 of which was raised by Susan Roach who presented the cheque to Mrs Dorothy Williams, chairman of Burry Port ladies' guild. Burry Port ILB was herself... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The West German Tug Fairplay X ,and Netherlands Coaster Orca
German tug, Dutch coaster ON THE AFTERNOON of Tuesday January 3, 1984, the West German tug Fairplay X fouled her propeller in St Ives Bay while trying to pass a towline to the Netherlands coaster Orca; the coaster, her engine disabled, had...
The End of H.M.S. Warspite. A Dangerous Service By Penlee
AT the end of April the famous battleship Warspite, which was built over thirty years ago. and served with great distinction in two wars in all parts of the world, was being towed from Portsmouth by two tugs to a shipbreaker's yard on...
Category: Services
Pluto and another Steamer
JANUARY 23RD. - NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND. The Norwegian steamer Pluto and another steamer had been mined, but fishing boats nearby picked up the crews of both steamers. - Rewards, £14 18s.
(See North...
Every Man to the Boat and Every Woman to the Rope' Used to Be the Cry at Newbiggin and As a Tribute to the Past for the Branch's Harbour Fete In August the Ladies Dr
'Every man to the boat and every woman to the rope' used to be the cry at Newbiggin and, as a tribute to the past, for the branch's harbour fete in August the ladies dressed in traditional fisherwomen's costume. With the help... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
HANDS TO THE PUMP
THURSO | 11 FEBRUARY
The two-man crew of a fishing boat called for help in the small hours when their engine room started filling with water off Dunnet Head. Thurso lifeboat crew reached the scene at 5am to transfer a salvage pump...
Category: Articles
Virtuous, Just Reward, Good Way, Golden Gleam and Mary Jane
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 9.20 on the morning of the 27th of October, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a number of Fraserburgh fishing boats had been caught in a violent northerly gale off Rattray Head. At 9.32...
The Motor Fishing Vessels Breadwinner, Orient and Dolly Graham (1)
Eyemouth, and St. Abbs, Berwickshire.— At 10.7 in the morning, on the 24th of April, 1950, the Eyemouth life-boat authorities received a message from a Burnmouth fisherman that the motor fishing vessel Breadwinner, of Burn- mouth, was in...
Galilee, Progress,Endeavour, Noel II, Provider and Venus
Whitby, Yorkshire.—Several fishing boats went to sea early on the morning of the 28th May. The weather got bad and some of them came in. By 8 A.M.
a heavy sea was rolling in and breaking at the harbour entrance, and a...
RNLI Chief Executive Andrew Freemantle and Captain Song Jiahui,
RNLI Chief Executive Andrew Freemantle and Captain Song Jiahui, Director General of the China Rescue and Salvage Bureau, met in Shanghai in November 2005 to sign a five-year cooperation plan between the two organisations following the sale... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs