LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Buckle, Whitehills, Banffshire; and Cromarty, Cromartyshire. —• At one o'clock on the morning of the 5th of September, 1956, the Peterhead coastguard telephoned that a Sea- hawk aircraft wras missing on a flight from Lossiemouth. The...

It was reported on the evening of the 13th September that a party of nine people were stranded on Lady Isle, about three miles from Troon, in the Firth of Clyde. They had left Prestwick at 3 P.M. in a motor boat and had landed on the island...

The barge Envoy, of Dover, was overtaken by a whole N.N.W. gale and very heavy sea when near the Brake Sands, on the 30th September. The Life-boat Charles and Susanna Stephens was despatched to her assistance a few minutes after midnight,...

" I have come here to-night as the representative of the committee of management of the Royal National Life-boat Institution.

" We are met in grief and in pride.

The men whom we mourn were loved...

With deep regret we announce the following deaths: April Dr Robert Rees Prytherch, a lifelong supporter of the RNLI who had been honorary medical adviser at Criccieth since 1956 and chairman of the station branch for many years. He was...

St. Ives, Cornwall. At 5.47 p.m. on 13th September, 1965, the coastguard reported that a skin diver was missing from the fishing boat Bonnie Lass, of St.

Ives. At 6.10 the life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando and Eva Child was...

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SOUTHPORT, LANCASHIRE.—The Life- boat on this station was rapidly becoming unfit for further service, and it has there- fore been replaced by a new 10-oared boat, 34 feet long, and 8J feet wide. The legacy of 5001. bequeathed to the...