LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat Service In 1933
ALTHOUGH 1933 was remarkable for having one of the longest and most settled summers on record, the number of lives rescued from shipwreck round the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland was the largest for five years. It was 406. Of this total...
Category: Articles
Marguerite
TWO LIFE-BOATS AND A STEAMER TO THE RESCUE North Sunderland, and Boulmer, North- umberland.—At 4.36 in the afternoon of the 17th of January, 1948, the Seahouses coastguard telephoned to North Sunderland that the local fishing yawl...
Fishing Cobles (3)
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— On the morning of the 20th February it was reported that practically the whole of the local fishing fleet was out, and that the sea was making very fast and was breaking across the harbour entrance. The...
London Boat Show
'BRING ME SUNSHINE' was the theme of the 27th London International Boat Show, set against a Caribbean background, at Earls Court from January 8 to 18, so who else could have opened it but Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise? Always good...
Category: Articles
Lerwick
Invited to the 80th general conference of the Norwegian Life-boat Society was Mr. Frank Garriock, Norwegian Consul in Lerwick. The Norwegian Society has 33 boat stations—32 in Norway and one at Lerwick, Shetland....
Category: Meetings
Gika
Search and rescue A YACHT IN DISTRESS somewhere to the south west of South Stack Light was reported to the honorary secretary of Holyhead lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 0908 on Sunday September 4, 1977; her exact position was not known...
Fourteen Rescued from German Ship
AT 6.15 on the morning of the 27th of October, 1959, the honorary secretary of the Mallaig, Inverness-shire, life- boat station, Mr. R. Watt, was told by the coastguard that a German ship was ashore on the island of Rhum fourteen miles away....
Category: Services
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Stronsay, Orkneys. At 7.10 p.m. on ist June, 1-965, a doctor on Papa Westray asked for the use of the life-boat The John Gellatly Hyndman to take a patient to hospital at Kirkwall. The lifeboat put out at 7.30 in a moderate northwesterly...
Gifts from Crews
WHEN Century Life-boat Day was held at Montrose the crews of the two Boats presented £8, and in addition to this returned the sum of £5 13s., which was due to them as payment for a practice launch, thus contributing nearly £14...
Category: Donations
Royal Humane Society Award
DR. C. V. KAULA has been awarded a testimonial on vellum by the Royal Humane Society for his services in going to the help of the keeper of the St. Helen's Fort at Spithead, who was seriously ill. The Bembridge, Isle of Wight, life-boat...
Category: Awards