LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rescue from Cliff In Full Gale
AT 11.10 p.m. on the night of Saturday I4th September, 1963, Mr. R. Watt, the honorary secretary of the Mallaig life-boat station, learnt from the police that a number of people were trapped on a cliff in Loch Duich. A quarter of an hour...
Category: Services
D.R. 64
Dover, Kent. At 5.34 on the afternoon of 15th April, 1961, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that the fishing boat DR. 64 was in difficulties with engine failure close inshore at St.
Margaret's Bay. At...
Storm on the Waters
STORM ON THE WATERS The Story of the Life-boat Service in the War of 1939-1945 By CHARLES VINCE " Read it, and you will hear the gales roaring; no breeziness here, no mere soldier's wind, but a blow to match the courage of the...
Category: Advertisement
Awards to Honorary Workers
Honorary Life-Governors The following have been appointed Honorary Life-Governors of the Institution and are presented with a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum and signed by H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution: MR....
Category: Awards
The S.S. Baron Graham and The S.S. Duero
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. — On the night of the 10th February members of the Civic Guard from Waterford brought news that the s.s.
Baron Graham, of Ardrossan, was in distress about eight miles off the Waterford coast. A...
The Annie, Johann Benjamin, and Briton and Krona
On the night of the 17th, lights, repeated in quick succession, were seen in the direction of the New Sand light, and the Donna Nook Life-boat proceeded to sea, but the unfortunate vessel, which was found to be the Annie, of Montrose, had...
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Navena
Scarborough lifeboat, the 37ft Oakley Amelia, under the command of Coxswain Ian Firman, setting off soon after 1100 on January 26, 1984, to help the Fleetwood trawler Navena, which was making water and listing about nine miles north east of...