LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Tug and The Drifters Pittendrum and Barbara Cowie
NOVEMBER 14TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. During the darkness of the early hours a heavy north-north-east gale, with squalls and a rough sea, broke the moorings of the fishing fleet in Balaclava Harbour. One drifter was driven on to...
Close to home
Last Summer, RNLI lifeguards and lifeboat crews saved the lives of 82 children and teenagers – but they can’t prevent every drowning, as mum-of-two Bethany Hope reports
Tragedy hit the...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services March April and May 1981
May, 1981 Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Arun: April 14 D class inflatable: April 7 and 13 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Relief Atlantic 21: May 3 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: April 19 (twice) Aberystwyth, Dyfed Relief D class inflatable: March 1 D...
Category: Services
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To THOMAS PATTON, on his retirement, alter serving for 27J years as Coxswain of the Portrush Life-boat, a Coxswain's Certificate of Service, and a Pension.
To MATTHEW GRUNNILL, on his retirement, after serving for 23J...
Category: Awards
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
PENZANCE.—The Life-boat stationed some years since at Penzance has been replaced by a new one provided by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
The new boat is 36 ft. long, 8 ft. wide, and rows 12 oars double - banked....
Category: Articles
Solan
OCTOBER 14TH.. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. On the night of the 13th the Carne look-out post reported that it had heard a ship give three blasts on her whistle near Findale Perch, and thought she must have gone aground. The weather was...
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution from the 1st Oct. To the 31st Dec., 1876
DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.—On the night j of Sunday the 1st October, 1876, the ] No. 2 Life-boat, John Turner-Turner, res- cued the crew of the brig Mary Ann, of Whitehaven, and 4 boatmen, being 10 in all, from that vessel, which had drifted on...
Category: Services
Golden Charter
The caring approach to a sensitive subject THERE COMES A TIME IN LIFE when it's natural to consider your own funeral....
and to think alx ut loved ones and what you'd like to leave them.
Not the...
Category: Advertisement
Notes of the Quarter
WITH this number we greet a new readership. This consists of members of the newly formed Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters' Association to be known as the Y.L.A. The new Association was formally brought into being by Sir Alec Rose at...
Category: Articles
After the Hurricane
THE hurricane-force winds which caused so much damage in the south of England last October resulted in a dozen launches by lifeboats in the area affected by the storm, with three of the services leading to medal awards.
The...
Category: Articles