LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Colchester District Branch
Surely the fittest postman in the east: David Clemens, 69, who is also vice-chairman of Colchester District branch, holds his London Marathon medal aloft as he goes on his delivery round in Marks Tey. He was one of a large team of runners in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Tyne's inflatable used to transfer sick woman through surf to lifeboat Commodore George Cooper, the RNLI's Chief of Operations, has written to congratulate Coxswain/mechanic Robert Erskine and his crew for 'a fine team effort...
Lifeboat Services (From Page 118)
Lifeboat Services (from page 118) spectacles and dived into the water to help the woman. At the same time John Wall threw a line to the man approaching with the children.
On reaching the woman Richard Wheeler, a trained...
Category: Services
A Constant Procession Board the 52Ft Arun for a Closer Look Round She Was Lying Alongside the Depot Quay Astern of the Prototype 47Ft Tyne
A constant procession board the 52ft Arun for a closer look round. She was lying alongside the depot quay, astern of the prototype 47ft Tyne.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Last 18Ft 6In Mclachlan (Left)
The Last 18Ft 6In Mclachlan (Left). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Ferries European Gateway and Speedlink
Ferry collision HARWICH HARBOUR RADIO received a call at 2251 on Sunday December 19, 1982, from the outward bound roll-on roll-off ferry European Gateway reporting that she was in collision with the inward bound ferry Speedlink Vanguard in...
Boston Heron
MINISTER OF TRANSPORT EXPRESSES THANKS Stornoway, Hebrides. At 9.30 on the evening of the 3rd December, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a mayday distress signal had been heard from a vessel and that they were trying...
Johnno
Three saved from motor ship aground and awash off beachawash off beach Whitstable and Sheerness lifeboats were launched after the motor ship Johnno broadcast a Mayday on 12 January 1995. The vessel, on passage from the Isle of Grain to...
A Yacht
Injured yachtsman saved from certain deathD A mayday call from an injured sailor who had lost control of a yacht was relayed to Falmouth Coastguard on 29 October 2003.
The Royal Navy (RN) search and rescue helicopter from...
Sjofna, of Oslo
NOVEMBER 23RD. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL, AND CLOVELLY, DEVON.
At 2.30 in the morning the Padstow coastguard telephoned that news had been received from the naval authorities at Falmouth that a ship was ashore at Knap Head, near...