LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Bronze Medals for Two Scottish Coxswains. St. Andrews, Fifeshire and Thurso, Caithness-Shire
St. Andrews, Fifeshire, and Thurso, Caithness-shire.
Two gallant services were carried out by Life-boats in Scotland during March., one by the Pulling and Sailing Life- boat at St. Andrews, Fifeshire, and the other by the...
Category: Medals
An Angling Boat
Injured angler A RED FLARE in the Bracklesham Bay area was spotted at 1005 on Sunday, December 7, 1986 by Hayling Island Crew Member Graham Raines, who advised Solent Coastguard. The station honorary secretary agreed to alert the crew and...
Appointments
Mr. S. Macdonald, F.R.I.N.A., M.I.E.S.S., S.N.A.M.E., has been appointed Chief Staff Officer (Technical) of the R.N.L.I. Mr. Macdonald is married and is aged 50.
He was educated at Greenock and Edinburgh Academies and...
Category: Committee
Galatea
On the 8th Fe- bruary, the Norwegian barque Galatea ran on shore on the bar at the entrance of Youghal harbour, the captain having mistaken the port for Queenstown: a gale of wind was blow- ing at the time from the south, and there was a...
A Gift of Shamrock
The Duchess of Kent and the three Irishmen (See page 164). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rose, of Lyne
on 28th Nov., saved 3 men from the schooner Rose, of Lynn..
William, of Liverpool
on 9th Feb., saved 5 men from the schooner William, of Liverpool..
The Russian Cargo Vessel Jushnij Bug
RUSSIAN VESSEL At 9.50 a.m. on I4th October, 1964, a shipping agency in Hull telephoned the coxswain superintendent saying that a woman aboard the Russian cargo vessel Jushnij Bug was severely ill and needed medical attention. At 10.30 the...
The American Steamer West Cohas
Moelfre, Anglesey.—19th July, 1938, An American steamer, the West Cohas, collided with an Irish motor vessel off Skerries, Holyhead, but they were both able to make for the Mersey without help.—Rewards, £10 4s..