LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

LIFEBOAT STAYS WITH CASUALTY FOR MORE THAN EIGHT HOURS Help for disabled MFV in severe gale force winds Whitby's relief Tyne class lifeboat Owen and Ann Aisher was on service for some 12 hours on 3 April 1990 when three fishing vessels...

ST. DAVID'S, PEMBROKESHIRE.—On the 15th October, at about 1 P.M., the Augusta Life-boat was launched, it having been reported that the brigantine Messenger, of Exeter, bound from Teignmotzth to Buncorn with a cargo of clay, had had all...

Eleven rescued ON THE MORNING OF Monday, November 1, 1976, the uss Sellers, a guided missile destroyer, arrived in Jersey waters to pay a courtesy visit. It was originally intended that she should anchor in St Aubin's Bay but as the wind...

EARLY on the morning of the 27th of November, 1954, the 20,125-ton Liberian tanker World Concord, which was in ballast and bound from Liverpool to Syria, broke in two during storms of exceptional violence in the Irish Sea.

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OC T O B E R 3 1 S T . - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. A steamer had been in distress off the coast of Tiree, but she was taken in tow by a naval vessel. - Rewards, £20 9s..

SEPTEMBER 26TH. - RAMSGATE, AND MARGATE, KENT. A Halifax aeroplane had been reported to have crashed in the sea, but it had come down on the Belgian coast.- Rewards : Ramsgate, £12 3s. 6d. ; Margate, £17 3s. 6d..

A FORTNIGHT after her Inaugural Ceremony the new Thurso Motor Life-boat rescued her first lives.

On 28th September last, the 25,000- ton battle-ship H.M.S. Marlboroitgh was at anchor in Thurso Bay. She sent off a cutter to...