LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Birthday Honours
The following were among those honoured by the Queen in the Birthday Honours: Privy Counsellor Mr. James H. Hoy, D.L., M.P. for the Leith Division of Edinburgh since 1950.
R.N.L.I. Committee of Management...
Category: Awards
Life-Boat Broadcasting. Appeals In Ireland and Wales
DURING the summer four Life-boat appeals have been broadcast in Ireland and Wales. On 30th May, just before Life-boat Day was held in Belfast, Sir Frederick Moneypenny, C.V.O., C.B.E., the City Chamberlain of Belfast and Private Secretary to...
Category: Donations
Trapped by the tide
Among the new lifeboats that were in action (listed in Launches, left) over the Autumn and Winter was Newquay’s D class lifeboat, Enid Mary. Her crew faced a tricky rescue in the surf when a group of students were cut off by...
Category: Articles
Cover Picture
Return from exercise: Portrush's 46' 9" Watson lifeboat Lady Scott (Civil Service No. 4) returns to harbour. A housed slipway boat built in 1949, she has, since going on station, launched on service 127 times and rescued 69... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Left) With Coxswain Malcolm Macdonald
(Left) With Coxswain Malcolm MacDonald at her helm, the 52ft Arun, Sir Max Aitken II demonstrates her handling to Princess Alexandra and other guests in Cowes Harbour. - View image in PDF
photographs by Colin Watson. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Zircon (1)
On the bar TWO RED FLARES sighted on the south side of Portmadoc Estuary, near and inside the bar, were reported to the honorary secretary of Pwllheli lifeboat station by Coastguard Porthdinllaen at 0035 on Thursday, September 1. The wind...
The Blackpool Life-Boat Band
THIS is the story of the Blackpool Life- boat Band, which is very proud of being the only Life-boat Band in the world.
Blackpool was a very different place forty-two years ago from the popular seaside resort of to-day, and...
Category: Articles
Granero
The Norwegian steamer Granero, of Drammen, bound with a cargo of pit-props from Finland for South Alloa, ran ashore at Crawton, twenty miles south of Aberdeen, on the evening of the 23rd October. She carried a crew of eighteen. A moderate...
Cassandra, of Liverpool
Again, on that day, during a gale from the W.N.W., the barque Cassandra, of Liverpool, was wrecked in Compton Bay, near this Life- boat Station, while on a voyage to the Thames from Madras. The Life-boat George and Anne was taken to the Bay,...
Maria
The schooner Maria, of Fowey, whilst bound from Charlestown to Ghent, with a cargo of china clay, attempted to put into New- haven Harbour on the 12th February.
A strong southerly gale was blowing with a heavy sea, and the...