LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Launches
ABERDEEN ON-1248(17-24):Dec 12,13,26, Feb 9,16,19,20 D-536:Dec 12,13,24,26(x2),Feb 20 ABERDOVEY B-758:Jan 30,Feb 19 ABERYSTWYTH B-704:Dec21,Jan20,Feb26 ACHILL ISLAND ON-1245(14-29):Feb 19,20 AITH ON-1232(17-14):Jan21 ALDEBURGH D-520:Feb 13...
Category: Services
Inshore Lifeboats: (Below) West Bay Ladies from Dunoon Who Raised the Money to Provide the New D Class Ilb at St.Abbs Were Honoured Guests at Her Handing Over Cere
Inshore lifeboats: (below) West Bay Ladies from Dunoon, who raised the money to provide the new D class ILB at St Abbs, were honoured guests at her handing over ceremony on June 26, 1976 and are seen here with members of the crew. (Below,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Austrian Barque Pace
About 1 P.M. on the 28th December, JOSEPH Cox, the cox- swain of the Hope life-boat stationed at Appledore, was informed by the coast-guard that two vessels were embayed, and would probably go on shore. He instantly assembled his crew,...
Letters
THE JOURNAL 0 I feel that I cannot let the July edition of your journal pass without comment. I would have thought that the object of a publication named THE LIFE-BOAT would have been to give ne vs on developments, e.g. the article by Lieut....
Category: Correspondence
Restoration of the Apparently Drowned
AMONGST the most interesting and im- portant subjects which, from time to time, have been treated in The Life-boat Journal, is that of the means to be resorted to for the restoration of the apparently drowned, and it is one in which the...
Category: Articles
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Category: Advertisement
May
Launches 53. Lives rescued 27.
MAY 1ST. - CROMARTY. At 7.40 A.M. a message was received from the Cromarty coastguard that two airmen had been seen in the sea off Brora, and at 8.20 A.M. the motor life-boat James Macfee was...
Category: Services
Sir John Cumming
SIR JOHN GHEST GUMMING, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., died on the 9th of March, 1958, at the age of 89. He joined the Committee of Management of the Institution in 1921 and was appointed a Vice- President in 1932. He resigned from the Committee in 1956....
Category: Obituaries
The S.S. Resolven
On the 9th February, while a strong gale was blowing from W.S.W., the s.s. Resolven, of Cardiff, 1,032 tons register, bound from North Shields for Lisbon with coal, stranded on the Barber Sand. The No. 2 Life-boat Beauchamp proceeded to her,...
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Lerwick, Shetlands. At 3.57 on the afternoon of the 27th December, 1961, the medical officer of health for Shet- land rang up the honorary secretary to say that a three-year-old girl on Fair Isle was believed to have...