LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
April (1)
PORTMUCK, Co. ANTRIM. Just after noon on the 19th of October, 1943, a British aeroplane crashed into the sea about six miles south-east of Muck Island, and the Portmuck coastguard called out a local motor boat, Bl96. The sea was smooth with...
Category: Services
San Remo Award
AT a meeting of the Committee of Management of the Institution in April it was decided to submit the name of Coxswain Daniel Kirkpatrick to the Italian Embassy in London for the San Remo "Figurehead of Courage" award for 1965. His...
Category: Awards
September
Launches 36 Lives rescued 49 SEPTEMBER 2ND. - WALMER, KENT. A leading seaman on H.M.S. Fossbeck had his skull fractured when a bucket of ashes fell on him, and at six in the morning the motor life-boat Langham, on temporary duty at the...
Category: Services
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOE THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverte,—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, " L. C. "Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in...
Category: Medals
African Queen
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.1 on the evening of the 6th of June, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was burning flares near the No. 5 Sea Reach buoy. At 9.25 the life-boat Greater London II (Civil Sen-ice No. 30) was launched....
A Gift from An Infants' School
A SHORT time ago the Institution lent to the head mistress of an infants' school in a very poor part of London, one of its models in glass tanks, which are used for showing how a self-righting Life- boat empties herself of water and...
Category: Donations
European
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—The brig European, of and from Sunderland for Corsica, with coal, glass, and machinery, was seen to ground on the Middle Cross Sand, during a strong N.N.E. wind, hazy weather, and a strong sea, on the 18th November. The...
Margaret Anne, of Preston
On the 9th February the schooner Margaret Anne, of Preston, laden with coals, was driven ashore north of the harbour of Skerries, in a heavy easterly gale. The Skerries life-boat imme- tliately proceeded to her aid, and took off her crew,...
Index to Advertisers
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Category: Index
The S.S. Mercator
DEC. 1ST. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
A ship’s boat had landed at Boddam, with twelve men on board, who reported that, their ship, the S.S. Mercator, of Helsinki, had been sunk by enemy action and that another of the ship‘s...