LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Reggio
Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At 9.30 on the night of the 6th of November, 1955, the Wick coastguard rang up to say that the steam trawler Reggio, of Grimsby, had gone ashore five miles west of Dunnet Head. She was bumping badly and needed help....
Loyal Friend
Wick,Caithness-shire. At five o'clock on the morning of the 8th of March, 1961, the coastguard informed the hon- orary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Loyal Friend was ashore on the Skerries. At 5.20, when the life-boat City of...
Contents
Contents Volume XLIX Number 494 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOLL Director and Secretary: REAR ADMIRAL W J GRAHAM CB MNI Editor: EDWARD WAKE-WALKER Headquarters: Royal National Lifeboat Institution, West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 1HZ...
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April
Launches 41 Lives rescued 56
APRIL 3RD. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
A message was received from the son of the life-boat coxswain, Dumble, that his father and his father’s partner were out in their crab-boat...
Category: Services
Rnli News
Storm Force Storm Force, the new RNLI membership scheme for everybody under 16, was launched at the London Boat Show on January 2 by Erkan Mustafa who plays Roland Browning and Simone Nylander who plays Janet St Clair of BBC Television's...
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Complete diamonds
Volunteers Ian and Sue Bell have rather an unusual role with the RNLI – and have raised over £47,000 towards saving lives at sea
This active retired couple take care of the diverse range...
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Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...
Biscay Pride
Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...
A Helicopter (1)
Helicopter crash A MAYDAY distress call from the cockle boat Vallan reporting seeing a helicopter crash on Gat Sand, in the Wash, was intercepted by Yarmouth Coastguard at 1424 on Sunday June 26. A helicopter from RAF Coltishall just...
The S.S. Northeastern Victory, of San Francisco
DECEMBER 24TH. - WALMER, KENT.
At 12.30 in the afternoon the Deal coastguard reported that a vessel had been seen at noon heading towards the Goodwin Sands.
It was misty, and she had not been seen...