LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
None (1)
Floods hit Scottish caravan site Aberdeen's D class inshore lifeboat was towed more than eight miles behind the helmsman's car when a flash flood burst the banks of the River Dee and water up to 1 Oft deep engulfed a park containing...
February (1)
LISMORE ISLAND, ARGYLLSHIRE. Some American sailors belonging to a Greek ship in convoy absented themselves and went to a hotel at Port Appin on the mainland. By some means they arrived at Lismore Island, Loch Linnehe, and were eventually...
Category: Services
Lifeboat Services (1)
MARCH, APRIL AND MAY 1991 Aberdeen, Grampian 54ft Arun ON 1050: April 8 D class: April 21 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: March 24 and April 3 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: April 1 (three times) Aberystwyth, Dyfed C class: March 13, April...
Category: Services
A Vessel (1)
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.—14th January. 1938. A vessel appeared to be in distress, and in the absence of the coxswain and the second coxswain, the assistant motor mechanic took charge.
—Rewards, vellum and monetary...
Lifeboat Services (1)
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Arun ON 1050: July 30 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: June 2, 10, 25 (three times) and July 27 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: June 7, July 5, 19, 25, 28 and 30 Aberystwyth, Dyfed C class: June 1, 2, 12, July 1,...
Category: Services
Niblick (1)
High speed response helps mine-damaged trawler to safetyThe fast response time of the high-speed Atlantic 21 was put to good use at Harwich last October when the honorary secretary of the station decided to make use of the rigid inflatable...
Frida Blokzijl (1)
FIVE RESCUED FROM DUTCH COASTER On the 7th March, 1962, the Cloughey, Co. Down, life-boat rescued five men from the Dutch coaster Frida Blokzijl. A full account of this service, for which Coxswain Walter Semple was awarded the bronze medal...
A Yacht (1)
MAY 17TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. An aeroplane had come down in the sea, and a minesweeper which had seen the crash found wreckage, but no survivors were found.- Rewards, £16 5s. 6d.
(See Sheringham, “ Services by...
Travelscope-1
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Category: Advertisement
October (1)
OCTOBER MEETING ST.ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE. About mid-day on the 13th of July, 1945, it was reported that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea off St.
Abbs Head. A light north-east wind was blowing, with a slight sea, and the...
Category: Services