LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fisher Boy
Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At 8.30 on the evening of the 4th of October, 1954, the Wick coastguard telephoned that the motor fishing boat Fisher Boy had run ashore at Brimsness. At 8.45, at low water, the life-boat //. C. J. was launched. The...
New Boy
A strong S.W.
gale was blowing on the 20th February with a rough sea, and at about 11 A.M.
a message was received from Cove by telephone that a trawler was in a dangerous position, dragging her anchor.<...
Lifeboat Services March April and May 1981
May, 1981 Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Arun: April 14 D class inflatable: April 7 and 13 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Relief Atlantic 21: May 3 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: April 19 (twice) Aberystwyth, Dyfed Relief D class inflatable: March 1 D...
Category: Services
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Category: Advertisement
List of Launches
Station-by-station lifeboat launches for November and December WS and January and February 7999 Aberdeen Arun: Nov 12 (twice), 18, Jan 12, 13, 21 and 24 D Class: Jan 13 and 24 Achill Island Arun: Feb 27 Aith Severn: Jan 10, 31 and Feb 9...
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Some Ways of Raising Money
To organise a massive cheese and wine evening with more than 200 guests is no mean achievement when you are over eighty, confined to a wheel-chair and reliant on the telephone for making all arrangements. Nevertheless, the irrepressible Mrs...
Category: Donations
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MARCH 28TH. - DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN. - Red flares had been reported to the N.N.E. of Maughold Head, but nothing was seen except flashes which appeared to be coming from the Cumberland coast, and were apparently anti-aircraft defence measures....
Eleven Years on a Look at the Atlantic 21 Rigid Inflatable Lifeboat Some of Those Who Know Her Well
THE ATLANTIC 21 rigid inflatable has proved one of the most successful of the Institution's modern lifeboats and 30 are now on station. With an overall length of 22ft 9in, a rigid GRP hull and inflatable neoprene tube 'bulwarks',...
Category: Articles
Boy Andrew
These dramatic photographs capture an incident on Friday 13 January 1989 when the fishing vessel Boy Andrew ran into a narrow gulley at Trebister Ness on Westray in the Shetlands. Lerwick's Arun Soldian took the crew off by Y boat and...
Boy Andrew
Crew snatched to safety seconds before MFV sinks under tow Coxswain/Mechanic Hewitt Clark of Lerwick, Shetland, has been awarded a bar to his Bronze medal following the service to the fishing vessel Boy Andrew pictured in the Spring issue of...