LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Women's Work from Page 197
Debbie Stewart, now in the Aberystwyth ILB crew, originally trained at Atlantic College where there are six girls on the crew. Jeanne O'Gorman is an instructor at the Outward Bound School at Aberdovey where the village and school each...
Category: Articles
Above: the Aran Islands' Facilities Are Due for a Makeover
Above: The Aran Islands' facilities are due for a makeover. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bottom: The Helicopter Manoeuvres Over The Lifeboat For Winching
Bottom:The helicopter manoeuvres over the lifeboat for winching Photos: Nigel Millard. - View image in PDF
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Aith, Shetland—22nd February. Early in the morning the telephone service having failed, the volunteer-in-charge of the Board of Trade rocket lifesaving apparatus at Walls travelled ten miles to bring news from Lerwick that flares had been...
Your Letters
Kits and pieces Sir - I would like to point out to Mr C. J.
Richardson (Your Letters, Spring 1990 issue) that there are several lifeboat models on the market.
Two models are currently available as complete...
Category: Correspondence
Books
• Peter Mitchell's book The Wrecker's Guide to South West Devon has been written in response to the demands of the thousands of diving enthusiasts who each year travel to the West Country in search of the wrecks which litter its...
Category: Articles
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1859
I.—Moved by WILLIAM COTTON, Esq., F.R.S.
Seconded by Vice-Admiral SIR GEORGE SARTORIUS.
1.—That the Report now read be adopted and circulated.
2.—Moved by GEORGE LYALL, Esq.,...
Category: Meetings
Muddy waters
How would the occupants of a yacht survive when it sank within seconds at the mouth of the Thames? Anne Millman finds out
On the overcast but cold morning of 17 February, Thames Coastguard at Waltonon- the-Naze heard an...
Category: Articles
Get Splashed Hall of Fame
The decision to find an overall winner was extremely difficult but in the end the category winners were: Catshill Rainbows, Bromsgrove Remember the Four Point Water Safety Code 13), Swanage Middle School, Swanage Home Education Advisory...
Category: Articles
The Fraserburgh Fishing Vessel John Scott
Engine failure IN A STRONG north-north-easterly gale, force 9, and snow showers, the skipper of the Fraserburgh fishing vessel, John Scott, contacted Shetland coastguard at 1945 on Wednesday April 24, 1985 to report that his engine had...