LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Two life-boats were named in Scotland in July, 1950, at St. Abbs and Buckie.

They are both gifts from Glasgow.

St. Abbs The new St. Abbs boat has been built out of a legacy from the late...

Earl Howe, who died on 26th July, 1964, at the age of 80, was actively associated with the Royal National Life-boat Institution for 45 years. He first joined the Committee of Management in 1919 and was elected a Vice-President in...

ON 29th September, 1925, the trawler Rig, of Ramsgate, was wrecked off Tolpedn, Cornwall, in a thick fog, when returning from a fishing voyage at Swansea. She had nine men on board.

Seven of the nine were rescued from the...

FEBRUARY 8TH and 9TH. - TENBY, AND ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE. Just before noon the Trinity House at Swansea telephoned to the life-boat station at Tenby, asking if the life-boat could be sent to the St.

Govans Light-vessel as...

Information was received at mid-day on the 4th January that a small boat, in which two youths had gone fishing at 4 A.M., was overdue, and the Coast- guard at Marsden reported that a small boat about three miles to the...

On the evening of the 28th July telephone messages were received from the Coast- guard that a small yacht was at anchor in a dangerous position about 300 yards off shore, and that she would probably take tie ground and capsize when the tide...

Early on the morning of the 23rd August the steam trawler Port Jackson, of Peter- head, carrying a crew of nine, ran ashore at Scotston Head during a fog.

The wind was only light from the S.E., but there was a heavy swell....

COXSWAIK THOMAS SINCLAIR, of Aberdeen, who died at the age of seventy, had been one of the outstanding coxswains in the Service. He retired in 1949 after having- been coxswain for nearly twenty-five years, during which more than 180 lives...