LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Other IRB Launches
In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 170, 181 and 194, the following launches on service were made during the months of March to May, 1966, inclusive: Aberystwyth,...
Category: Services
Mr. J. M. Mawso, J.P., of Barrow
By the death of Mr. J. M. Mawson, J.P., of Barrow-in-Furness, on 20th November, at the age of seventy-five, the Institution has lost one of the oldest of its honorary secretaries of life-boat stations. He was appointed honorary secretary in...
Category: Obituaries
Coxwain William Sutherland, of Anstruther
The Anstruther station has lost not only one of its honorary secretaries, but, by the death of ex-Coxswain William Sutherland on 31st October, one of the oldest of its life-boatmen.
He joined the crew in 1894 and was...
Category: Obituaries
The S.S. Georges Mabro (1)
FEBRUARY 9TH. - SALCOMBE, DEVON, AND THE LIZARD, CORNWALL. The S.S. Georges Mabro, of Alexandria, had been reported out of control to the south of Start Point, and the Salcombe motor life-boat put out at 1.40 P.M., but was signalled from...
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded In 1875
Jan. 1.—JOHN ROWNAN, of Knalton, Co. Wa- terford, on the occasion' of the wreck of the barque Gwmissa, at Knalton Cove, afforded shel- ter to 3 of the crew who had got ashore, and af- terwards assisted to save 6 others of- the crew, all...
Category: Articles
At Porthcawl Talking With Lt John Unwin Divisional Inspector of Lifeboats (West) and Members of the Ilb Crew
at Porthcawl, talking with Lt John Unwin, divisional inspector of lifeboats (West) and members of the ILB crew.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., arriving at the Belfast Boat Show on 18th February, 1970. Admiral Woods, while in Northern Ireland, visited a number of life-boat stations.
The Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., arriving at the Belfast Boat Show on 18th February, 1970. Admiral Woods, while in Northern Ireland, visited a number of life-boat stations.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Wilh. Colding (1)
INJURED MAN BROUGHT ASHORE Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—Just before noon on the 23rd of August, 1947, the coastguard reported a message from the S.S. Wilh. Colding, of Copenhagen, which three days previously had been in collision and had been...
HERE and THERE.
Frances Scott, honorary secretary of the Bournemouth branch, sailed to Swanage in his yacht Eulali to attend that station's centenary. On the return passage, when entering Poole Harbour, he saw a 14' skiff, Addio, which had capsized,...
Category: Articles
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