LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Record Collecting Box
LAST December the Institution received from Mr. F. 0. Brown, of Bedford Park, London, a cheque for £28 10s., the amount which he had collected during the year in his Life-boat box. At the same time, he said that owing to ill- health...
Category: Articles
Southern Scott
Fishing boat aground THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Peel lifeboat station was informed by Ramsey Coastguard at 0145 on Saturday March 29 that the motor fishing vessel Southern Scott was aground on Old Bath's Beach just to the north east of...
Gary Stanbury Pictured at the Helm Amongst the Sandbanks
From left: Crew Member Andrew Helmsman Gary Stanbury Crew Member Martin Davis Reproduced courtesy of the North Devon journal. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Marske Fisherman's Choir Founded Simply to Give Pleasure to Others Has Made a Second Lp Record In Aid of the Lifeboat Service the Record from the Profits of Which
Marske Fisherman's Choir, founded simply to give pleasure to others, has made a second LP record in aid of the lifeboat service. The record, from the profits of which it is hoped to fund an inshore lifeboat, is available from A. M. Lloyd... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Golden Way
Thurso, Caithness-shire - At 6.6 p.m. on I4th January, 1967, a vessel lying very close to the shore at Murkle was seen to have fired distress flares and rockets.
The life-boat Pentland (Civil Service...
Latifa
Hurricane tow AT ABOUT 1515 on Thursday, October 14, 1976, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Weymouth lifeboat station that the 52-ton yacht Latifa had requested assistance off Portland Bill. She had damaged sails, a shattered...
Longhope Disaster
ON the night of 17th/18th March, 1969, the Longhope, Orkney, life-boat T.G.B.
capsized. The whole of her crew lost their lives. This was the first life-boat disaster involving the loss of all or nearly all of the crew since...
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£5 By Benefit of Theft
WHEN thieves broke into the Whitby County Club at the end of last year and robbed the till of £5, they also took a life-boat collecting box containing £11 10s. The Prudential Assurance Company replaced not only the £5 taken...
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May
Islay, Inner Hebrides - At 7.30 p.m.
on 29th April, 1966, a man informed the honorary secretary that a motor fishing vessel was in trouble off the Isle of Jura.
The help of the Islay life-boat had been...
The S.S. Miguel, of Bilbao
Hartlepool, Co. Durham.—28th February.
At 11.19 A.M. the coastguard reported that the s.s. Miguel, of Bilbao, was in difficulties with her steeringchain broken, about twelve miles E.N.E. of West Hartlepool. A...