LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Norwegian Frigate Bergen
Portrush, Co. Antrim. On ist November, 1965, the Portrush life-boat Lady Scott (Civil Service No. 4) was launched to search for survivors from the Norwegian frigate Bergen. A full account of this service, for which special awards were made...
Chataway
wu KI.OW, Thursday February 13, 1986: the 42ft Watson class lifeboat. J. W. Archer, setting out at 132S on service in a gale force 8 to 9 south-easterly, to go to the aid of a catamaran some 20 miles to the south east of the station. The...
A Trimaran
Capsized trimaran FOUR MINUTES after HM Coastguard had alerted Berwick-upon-Tweed crew and honorary secretary, at 1631 on May 31, 1975, to tell them that a trimaran had capsized 2\ cables outside the harbour entrance, the D class ILB was...
Hartlepool Marina
Due to extending the Berths available we are pleased to announce this special offer ANNUAL BERTHING ONLY £98 per metre (inc. VAT) Fixed for 2 years. 20OO to 20O2 season The facilities available at Hartlepool Marina continue to grow: •...
Category: Advertisement
Run Up to Christmas 2005 Photos
On Sunday 27 November, hundreds of runners, young and old, fit and not so fit, gathered i Moors Valley Country Park in Dorset to raise funds for the RNLI. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Widow's Bequest
DURING a service in the war, on the 26th of October, 1941, the coxswain of the Cromer life-boat, and four of his crew were washed overboard. All five were picked up. The last of them was the signalman, Edward Walter...
Category: Donations
Red House Lugger (1)
Two lifeboats save six from yacht in storm conditions Aldeburgh and Lowestoft lifeboats were both involved in a long, arduous service in Storm Force winds and extremely heavy seas when they rescued six people from a yacht in the North Sea at...
Aldborough
The life-boat formerly placed at Sizewell- Gap, on the east coast of Suffolk, has been for the present transferred to Aldborough, five miles farther south, as a more serviceable spot, and where it can be...
Category: Articles
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PATIENT'S URGENT NEED At 2.40 p.m. on 2nd August, 1964, a local doctor told the honorary secretary that a patient urgently needed an operation at a mainland hospital. The weather was too poor for the air ambulance service to operate...
A Buccaneer Aircraft
Ditched aircraft AT 2225 on April 22, 1987 the station honorary secretary at Wick was alerted by Pentland Coastguard that a Buccaneer aircraft had ditched in the sea more than 21 miles north east by east of Wick.
The 48ft...