LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

OCTOBER 30TH. - ABERDEEN. A 6.40 A.M. a message was received that the S.S. Lisbon had been torpedoed, and the lifeboat crew was asked to stand by. At 7.42 the No. 1 motor life-boat Emma Constance put out at 7.42 A.M., but she was asked to...

WHILE the Institution was develop- ing its life-boat service in the first half of the 19th century another maritime organization was also in its infancy—a federation of port unions which was the precursor of the National Union of Seamen.<...

Notes of the Quarter from page III Elmy put out to the help of a fishing boat. The fishing boat's crew were taken aboard the lifeboat, but as she was returning to harbour the lifeboat capsized with the loss of the whole lifeboat crew and...

AN interesting ceremony took place at Horstead Church, Norfolk, on the 18th July, when a memorial window to the memory of the late Sir Edward Birk- beck, for twenty-five years Chairman of the Institution, was unveiled in the presence of Lady...

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on 9th August, 1966, during the localtown regatta, a strong south westerly wind developed which suddenly capsized many of the smaller craft which were near the starting line. This kept the...

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