LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Earl of Buchan
MARCH 27TH. - EYEMOUTH, BERWICKSHIRE.
At 9.10 A.M. the coastguard telephoned that a trawler was showing signals for medical aid. A light southerly wind was blowing with a rough sea. The motor lifeboat Frank and William...
Perseverence and Lugger
Two yachts in force 10 WHEN, at 2327 on September 20, 1973, the honorary secretary of Shoreham, Sussex, was told by the Coastguard that a yacht was in distress 20 miles south of Shoreham, the maroons were fired and Dorothy and Philip...
Services of the Life-Boats In January, February and March, 1958. 77 Lives Rescued
JANUARY DURING JANUARY life-boats were launched on service 45 times and rescued 54 lives.
DOCTOR TAKEN TO GRIMSBY TRAWLER Bridlington, Yorkshire. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 3rd of January, 1958, the...
Category: Services
An Aeroplane (21)
MAY 27TH. - THURSO, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
It had been reported that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £5 3s. 6d..
M.F.V. 7
Drifting on rocks ST ANN'S COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of St David's lifeboat station at 1138 on Saturday March 11 that MFV 7, on passage from Fishguard to Pembroke, had engine failure west of St David's...
Shoreline
IN THE LAST JOURNAL was published a photograph of HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the Institution, meeting the lifeboatmen who man RNLB Shoreline at Arbroath when His Royal Highness visited the station last May. On this page is another...
Category: Articles
The Weather Ship Weather Adviser
Troon, Ayrshire. At 3.10 on the morn- ing of the 6th May, 1961, the meteoro- logical office at Prestwick airport in- formed the honorary secretary that the weather ship Weather Adviser, on passage to the Clyde, had reported a man overboard...
A Motor Fire-Float
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire.— 13th August. A motor fire-float was indistress with her engine broken down, but was taken in tow by a steamer.— Rewards, £5 3s..
Lt Col Gerald Ross,
Lt Col Gerald Ross, deputy organising secretary of Ireland from 1952 until his retirement in 1967. He joined the Institution after many years service with the Royal Marines..
Category: Obituaries