LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

HOLYHEAD.—A telephone message having been received from the Breakwater Lighthouse stating that a boat, containing one man, was drifting across Church Bay and was evidently in need of assistance, on the llth June, the coxswain of the...

OCTOBER MEETING ST.ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE. About mid-day on the 13th of July, 1945, it was reported that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea off St.

Abbs Head. A light north-east wind was blowing, with a slight sea, and the...

CULLERCOATS.—On the morning of the 9th October a heavy sea rose up, and as several cobles had gone out early, some fishing and some piloting, it was feared that some accident might occur to them in coming in over the bar. The Life-boat...

The Lifeboat Mersey class ON 1169 Marine Engineer The Crew • Bronze Atedgf Co» swain Fr«d WalMngton for his 'courage, seamanship skills.

competence, local knowledge and professional...

Aberdeen.—At 6.37 in the morning of the 13th of January, 1949, informa- tion was received from the Pilot Station that a vessel was aground to the north of the north pier, Aberdeen Bay, but was not making signals of...

SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT DOVER Nov. 26TH. - DOVER, KENT.

During the morning H.M. Trawler Blackburn Rovers, with 16 men on board, was on anti-submarine patrol off Dover near the minefields. A full gale was blowing from the...

Hull's Special Report.

AT the Annual Meeting of the Branch, held on 31st March, the Lord Mayor (Councillor Digby Willoughby), one of; the Presidents of the Branch, proposed that Hull should make a special effort to...

The Haul-off Warp is used at nineteen stations, where the life-boats are launched off the open beach. It is a very effective method of getting the life-boat through the inshore breakers which might otherwise knock her back on the... - View image in PDF