LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On station THE FOLLOWING lifeboats have taken up station duties: Barra Island: 48ft 6in Solent class lifeboat ON 1020 (48-015), Hugh William Viscount Gough (previously stationed at Stornoway), June 16, 1984.

Invergordon:...

SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT BROUGHTY FERRY DEC. 5TH. - BROUGHTY FERRY, AND ARBROATH, ANGUS. - During the evening the Bell Rock Lighthouse, off the coast of Angus, reported by radio telephony that a small steamer had run on to the Bell Rock. At...

SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT BROUGHTY FERRY DEC. 5TH. - BROUGHTY FERRY, AND ARBROATH, ANGUS. - During the evening the Bell Rock Lighthouse, off the coast of Angus, reported by radio telephony that a small steamer had run on to the Bell Rock. At...

A competition open to secondary schoolboys and schoolgirls under the age of sixteen for an essay on the subject of the Life-boat Service was held again last year.

The subject set was: "Why does our country need a...

SINCE the publication of the last number of our quarterly journal this popular movement has been extending its ope- rations north, south, east and west with marked success, and wherever a Life-boat Saturday demonstration or collection has...

SUPPORTED SOLELY BT VOLCHTARY OOKTBIBUTIOBS.

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PROBLEM: The kit onboard a fishing vessel is expensive, and many crews ‘make do’, mend, or replace their broken machinery with kit that’s not always in line with modern safety standards. On top of that, crew training isn’t always as...

The 1964 award made under the terms of the James Michael Bower Endowment Fund established by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company has been made to Coxswain Harold Coyde, of Torbay, and Coxswain Daniel Kirkpatrick, of Longhope...