LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dundee Life-Boat Day. The Help of the Dundee, Perth, and London Shipping Co.
THE Dundee Life-boat Day this summer was an outstanding event. The Honorary Secretary, Mr. Lindsay, and his Life-boat Day Sub-Committee had j the very generous help of Mr. Kalph (.'. Cowper, the General Manager of the Dundee, Perth and...
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Life-Boat Calendar and Christmas Card
THE life-boat Christmas Card and Calendar will have reproduced on them in colour the picture shown above. It depicts a life-boat rescue on the dreaded Goodwin Sands. The paint- ing is one of two presented to the Institution some years ago by...
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Cromer, Gorleston and Scarborough Memorials
LORD TEMPLEWOOD, president of the Cromer branch of the Institution, un- veiled a tablet in the No. 1 life-boat- house at Cromer on the l()th of August, 1955, and formally opened a shelter in which a tablet is inscribed: "To honour the...
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Obituaries
It is with deep regret that we record the following deaths: August, 1985 Mr Frederick Brooks MBE, chairman of Hayling Island branch from 1970, later becoming president. In 1977 Mr Brooks became chairman of the station branch committee. He...
Category: Obituaries
The History of the Institution
THE history of the Institution during its first century of work has now been completed, and will be published in the early autumn of this year by Messrs.
Hodder & Stoughton, with the title " Britain's Life...
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The S.S. Urania, of Swansea
At 9 A.M. on the 18th January, at which time it was blowing hard from the southward, the s.s. Urania, of Swansea, bound from that port to Newry, went ashore north of this port on the North Bull Bank, and the same Life-boat promptly proceeded...
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APPENDICITIS PATIENT Islay, Inner Hebrides. At 10.20 p.m.
on 2 ist July, 1964, a local doctor told the honorary secretary that an appendicitis patient was in urgent need of an operation.
The air ambulance...
Minoru
Port Isaac and Padstow, Cornwall - At 7.25 p.m. on 7th July, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at Port Isaac that a yacht had fired red flares about five miles west north west of the station. At 7.49 the IRB was launched...
Juffertie
TOW FOR YACHT WITH INJURED MAN ABOARD St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 7.3 on the morning of the 3rd June, 1963, a message was received by radiotelephone from the yacht Juffertie that her master had cut his head and needed help. At 7.40 the...
Missel Thrush
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 4.34 on the afternoon of the 25th May, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that a 25-feet yacht needed help about a mile east-north-east of Platte Fougere.
There was a light easterly wind...