LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

OCTOBER 17TH. - ARBROATH, ANGUS.

At 11.30 at night the coastguard reported a vessel ashore off Prail Castle, and at 11.45, in calm weather, the motor life-boat John and William Mudie was launched. She found the trawler Lord...

1004 the Atlantic 21 ILB Blue Peter II launched on service with David Jones as helmsman and John Askew and Simon Dubberley as crew; the honorary medical adviser, Dr Jack Dubberley, also embarked.

The sky was overcast with a...

Among the awards announced in the Birthday Honours list were: KCVO Captain Alastair Sturgis Aird, cvo.

Sir Alastair is Comptroller and Equerry to HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, a Patron of the...

John Stewart Campbeltown coxswain John Stewart has been awarded Miss Maud Smith's Reward for Courage in Memory of John, 7th Earl of Hardwicke for the rescue of two people from the fishing vessel Sincerity (Summer 2001 issue, p. 10). The...

Injured swimmer A SOUTH-WESTERLY NEAR GALE force 7 was blowing on the afternoon of Saturday August 2, 1986, when the honorary secretary of Tenby lifeboat station was told by Milford Haven coastguard that a swimmer off Monkstone Beach was...

Awards made at the 1995 Annual Presentation of Awards See page 4 of this issue for a report of the Annual Meetings Since the last Annual Presentation of Awards Meeting the Committee of Management has awarded six Honorary Life Governorships,...

Fallen from cliff AT 1620 ON APRIL 22 the Garda Siochana informed Dr O'Brien-Moran, deputy launching authority of Tramore ILB station, that a young man had fallen and was lying seriously injured at the base of the cliff just west of...

PRESENTATION GIFTS THE WESTCOUIMTRY "PURITAN" SERVING SPOON A spoon of limited manufacture, produced by Wigfull's for occasions of celebration and personal importance.

A very fine example of English...