LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dr Tom Andrews
Dr Tom Andrews - former Cromer lifeboat station Honorary Medical Adviser.
Category: Obituaries
Beal Abhr
Youghal, Co. Cork - At 4.35 p.m. on 9th September, 1969, Valentia radio station reported that the motor fishing vessel Beal Abhr was in difficulties in Youghal bay. The lifeboat /. B. Couper of Glasgow was launched at 4.45 in a fresh...
The S.S. Monviso
Dover, Kent. — About 4.45 on the morning of the 21st of February, 1955, the harbourmaster reported that a vessel had stranded on the rocks east of St. Margaret's Bay. At 5.15 the life- boat Southern Africa put out. The sea was rough, a...
Hyacinth
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 2.46 on the afternoon of the 7th of December, 1954, the Ushant radio station broad- cast that the fishing boat Gordias had found the sailing yacht Hyacinth, of Washington, U.S.A., about twelve miles west-by-north...
Finance In 1943; Expenditure
Expenditure in 1943 was £299,125. That was more than in 1942 but much less than in a year of peace. Only one new life-boat could be completed and sent to the coast. She had taken three times the normal time to...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
GROOMSPORT, IRELAND.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has forwarded a new 32-feet 10-oared life-boat to this station, in place of a smaller one which was found i unsuitable for the locality. A transporting- I carriage has also been sent...
Category: Articles
A Motor Boat (1)
Troon, Ayrshire - At 3.50 p.m. on ist October, 1966, the honorary secretary saw a red flare aboard a motor boat off Lady Isle. Ten minutes later the lifeboat James and Barbara Aitken left her moorings in a rough sea and a fresh west north...
Sandrae
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 5.18 on the evening of the 24th of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had broken down three miles south of St.
Catherine's and needed a tow. There was...
Two slips in 6 hours
KYLE OF LOCHALSH | 13 SEPTEMBER
A canoeist endured a night alone in a cave by Loch Carron after slipping and injuring himself. In the morning he crawled out to get reception on his mobile and called...
Category: Articles
Lieut.-Commander Gartside-Tipping, R.N. Killed In Action Off Zeebrugge on the 25th September, 1915
LIEUT.-COMMANDER GARTSIDE-TIPPING, R.N. - View image in PDF
Killed in action off Zeebrugge on the 25th September, 1915. - View image in PDF
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Category: Photographs