LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Melinda Muriel (1)
Overturned fishing vessel AN EIGHTEEN FOOT fishing vessel, Melinda Muriel, had put out to sea from Skinningrove, Cleveland, with fourpeople on board on the morning of Tuesday July 29, 1986. The wind was north westerly and there were squally...
WHAT'S ON
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FASHION SHOW
Helensburgh sailing club, Argyll and...
Category: Articles
Claesjenguy (1)
The Flying Dutchman WHEN his 24-foot yacht Claesjenguy lost her rigging off Hastings on June 2, Mr P. W. Stoel, a Dutchman working for the BBC, had cause to be grateful for the services of three RNLI lifeboats.
Although he...
Life-Belts
No life-boat station can be considered complete without a set of life-belts for the boat's crew, and the several local committees should insist upon having them, and upon the belts being put on, before the men go afloat. The qualities...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats In January, February and March. 29 Lives Rescued
JANUARY DURING January life-boats were launched on service 28 times and rescued 3 lives.
INJURED MAN TAKEN OFF TRAWLER Scarborough, Yorkshire. At 5.15 on the evening of the 1st of January, 1960, the coastguard informed the...
Category: Services
Professor Edgar A. Pask, O.B.E., M.D., M.A., M.B., B.Chir., D.A., F.F.A.R.C.S.
Professor Edgar A. Pask, O.B.E., M.D., M.A., M.B., B.Chir., D.A., F.F.A.R.C.S., died suddenly on 3Oth May, 1966, at the age of 53. Professor Pask was a member of the Committee of Management of the Institution.
HIS LIFE AND...
Category: Obituaries
Feature: a Pier Without Equal
A pier without equal It was the collision of the Bowbelle and Marchioness in 1989 and the resulting 51 deaths that led the Government to ask the RNLI to provide a lifeboat service on the Thames. Now the RNLI's busiest lifeboat station of...
Category: Articles
An Appeal
A leading object of this publication being to draw attention to the deplorable loss of life from shipwreck which periodically takes place on our shores, we propose, in our pre- sent Number, to take a brief general review* of the subject, for...
Category: Articles
Collach, of Coll
Mallaig, Inverness-shire - At 5.40 p.m. on 5th September, 1966, a boat was reported to be overdue between Tirea and Coll. The life-boat EMM. Gordon Cubbin left her moorings at 5.50 in a gale force south westerly wind and a rough sea. It was...
An Anson Aeroplane
JULY 17TH. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE, AND LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE. At eight o’clock in the evening the Rhyl life-boat station was told that an Anson aeroplane had come down in the sea seven miles to the north-west, and that Botha aeroplanes and...