LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gifts from Crews
ON the 8th October, 1926, the Aberdovey Life-boat rescued the crew of four of the ketch Madge, of Chester, and saved the vessel. Out of the salvage money received the Crew have given £5 11s. to the Institution.
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Category: Donations
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Talking With Dr Sydney Peace of Orkney By Joan Davies
LISTEN TO Dr Sydney Peace and, underlying all that he says, you will hear the ring of his abiding love of the sea. You will also hear the echoes of his deep respect of all seafaring people and in particular for the lifeboatmen of Orkney,...
Category: Articles
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Rising tide RAMSEY COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Silloth lifeboat station at 1255 on Thursday February 11 that a man was stuck in the salmon nets at Dornock, two miles east of the River Annan, on the north side of the Solway...
Formby Lifeboat Station 1776-1919 By Barbara and Reginald Yorke
UNTIL RECENT TIMES the approaches to the Port of Liverpool were quite hazardous. The difficulties stemmed from the fact that seaward of the northern extremity of the Wirral peninsula the estuary suddenly opens out to become very shallow for...
Category: Articles
Fokke Dejong
HELP FOR DUTCH At 12.5 a.m. on 5th November, 1963, the coastguard informed the superintendent coxswain that the Dutch motor vessel Fokke dejong needed the help of the lifeboat to land a sick man. It was arranged that the life-boat would...
Boat Was Never More Than 150M from the Boathouse
Aberdovey helmsman Phil Nicol recovered from his brush with death (see page 8) In time to travel in style to his wedding on Easter Saturday. This caused quite a stir in the village. However, the boat was never more than 150m from the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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MEENLARAGH, Co. DONEGAL. At about four in the afternoon of 7th March, 1942, the motor boat Pride of Drumcliffe, with a crew of six men, was returning to the mainland with mails from Tory Island. As she got near the island in Innishbofin Bay,...
Category: Services
The Motor Fishing Vessels Lead Us and Provider A
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 3rd of November, 1956, the motor fishing vessels Lead Us and Provider A had put out to the fishing grounds. By the time they were due to return to harbour the weather had deteriorated considerably,...