THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Scottish Lifeboat Council was held in The Freemason's Hall, Edinburgh, on May 23 this year. Captain Alexander Ramsay of Mar, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Council, was in the chair at the...
Category: Meetings
JANUARY 15TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
A fishing boat had been reportedin distress, with a trawler standing by, but the life-boat arrived to find the trawler gone and no one on board the fishing boat. It was learned later...
THE tide is full, the wind is fair, The hour is striking now, And word goes round, with hearty cheer, "Up anchor to the bow." The capstan creaks as bars are manned By sailors stout and true; The captain smiles as from the strand...
Category: Poetry
Rising winds RYE AUXILIARY COASTGUARD requested the launch of Rye Harbour lifeboat at 1350 on Saturday October 3 following reports that the 24ft ketch Midley Belle was heading out to sea. It was a squally afternoon with moderate confused...
Gourdon, Kincardineshire ; Arbroath and Montrose, Angus.—At 12.20 in the morning of the 8th of July, 1948, the Gourdon coastguard reported to Gour- don life-boat station that the rowing boat Ella, with a crew of three, was expected, but had...
THE telephone rings long and loud ; time 5.25 A.M., 22nd March, 1937. I hasten to answer it and am informed by the coastguard that Seaforth Radio has given them a message that the s.s.
Marie Moller was on fire ten miles...
Category: Services
For the naval historian
The Complete Scrimgeour
– From Dartmouth to Jutland: 1913–16
by Alexander Scrimgeour
Review by Jason Hughes, Inshore Lifeboat Crew Member at RNLI Cowes Released to coincide...
Category: Articles
Shortly after 2 P.M. on the 15th May information was received that one of the fishing- boats, which had gone drifting for mackerel the previous night at 6.30 P.M., was missing. A strong N.E. gale had been blowing all night, and the Coast-...
JAN. 9TH. - SENNEN COVE, CORNWALL.
The Seven Stones Light-vessel fired rockets, but it was found that she was signalling for the Trinity House tender.- Rewards, £21 10s..
Nov. 6TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
It had been reported that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but the life-boat could find nothing. - Rewards, £14 9s. 6d..