LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

WE heartily congratulate the BOARD OF TRADE on the very satisfactory information it has been able to place before the public, in its recently-issued Annual Blue Book, relative to the shipping casualties on the coast of the United Kingdom...

JANUARY 31ST. - AITH, SHETLANDS.

On the evening of the 30th of January, a doctor reported that a man was seriously ill on the Island of Foula and in urgent need of a doctor. He was a merchant seaman, recently repatriated...

BANFF.—At 3.15 P.M. on the 17th February the Life-boat Help for the Helpless was launched, a telephone message having been received from Macduff intimating that three fishing boats about a mile outside the harbour were in urgent need of...

Birthday and New Year's Honours QBE Horace Kemball Greaves, secretary, Manchester Savings Committee. After the loss of the Mumbles lifeboat in 1947 Mr Greaves, then town treasurer of Swansea and honorary secretary of the Swansea branch,...

AYR, N.B.—At about 10 o'clock on the morning of Sunday, the 19th December, the brig William Hill, of Dundalk, was seen making for Ayr Harbour, during S.W. gale. She was unmanageable, from loss of the greater part of her canvas and the...

In brief BRANCHES in North Wales had a busy Summer - Holyhead ladies raised £1,200 from the sale souvenirs and Volvo draw tickets at the Anglesey show; Llandudno branch raised £1,150 from collection boxes and souvenirs at an...

Jan. 6.—Voted 37. to 6 men of Ballyetherland, Co. Donegal, for saving 6 other men whose boat had been destroyed by a whale off St. John's Point, on the 3rd November.

Also 31. to 5 men for rescuing 2 others from a...

West Division Marooned on dolphin THE DLA of Morecambe lifeboat station was informed by Liverpool Coastguard at 1625 on Sunday October 17, 1982, that a board sailor was in difficulties in Half Moon Bay, near Heysham. Maroons were fired at...