LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Barry Dock Lifeboat Station Has Very Close Links With Raf Kinloss
Barry Dock lifeboat station has very close links with RAF Kinloss, a friendship which began six years ago when Fl-Lt Tony Cowan and a colleague were testing a homing device they had invented. After a satisfactory completion of the trials, in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Services
South Western Division Tanker aground GUERNSEY LIFEBOAT, the 52' Arun Sir William Arnold, had been called out at 2250 on July 14, 1975, to escort a fishing boat under tow into harbour.
She returned from this service at...
Category: Services
An Aeroplane (46)
NOVEMBER 24TH. - ST. MARY’S, SCILLY ISLES. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found.
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A Vessel (36)
DECEMBER 6TH. - PORT ASKAIG, ARGYLLSHIRE. A vessel was reported to need help off Skerryvore Lighthouse, but no definite position could be given ; visibility was nil, and the life-boat abandoned the search. A second message was received that...
Winter Storms
4Extreme weather in the fi rst weeks of 2008 meant a busy time for several lifeboat stations. Stornoway’s Severn class lifeboat Tom Sanderson was out in force 11 winds, classed a violent storm, on 1 February. The trawler Spinningdale had run...
Category: Articles
New Films Available
Three new films are now available to branches. All are in colour and 16 m.m.
sound.
One of the new films. From Baltimore to Littlehampton, which runs for 12 minutes, tells the story of how the 44-foot...
Category: Articles
Kenneth Colley
Kenneth Colley, who was appearing in the play 'Scenes from a Voyage to the Indies' at Nottingham Playhouse, presents a cheque for £500 to Colin Westland-Garnetl (ct, honorary secretarv of Nottingham and District branch, and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The United States Amphibious Force L.C.I. 493, 498, 502, and 506
FEBRUARY 19TH. - TORBAY, DEVON.
At 4.47 in the afternoon the resident naval officer telephoned through the coastguard that landing craft belonging to the United States Amphibious Force were ashore on Paignton beach, between...
The Corvette K458
MARCH 29TH. - SENNEN COVE, AND PENLEE, CORNWALL. A message was received at Sennen Cove at 7.33 in the morning that a vessel needed help four miles north-north-west of Pedn-men-Dhu. A strong south-south-west wind was blowing and the sea was...
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