LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Kirkwall Grammar School
Michael Forsyth, a pupil of Kirkwall Grammar School, hands over a cheque for £78.80 to Captain M. S. Work, honorary secretary of Kirkwall lifeboat station, on board the 70ft Clyde class lifeboat, Grace Paterson Ritchie. The money was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Boy on cliffs AT 2133 ON SUNDAY, June 27, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Holyhead lifeboat station that a boy had fallen 200 feet down the cliffs and into the sea at North Stack but had swum back to the cliffs and had...
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To JOHN E. MORRIS, on his retirement, after serving for 17J years as coxswain and 3 moaths as bowman of the Barmouth lifeboat, a coxswain's certificate of service and an annuity.
To JOHN C. SNELL, on his retirement,...
Category: Awards
Ferndene
Longhope, Orkneys. At 3.32 p.m. on 23rd July, 1965, the motor vessel Ferndene of Sunderland was reported to have developed a dangerous list. She was off the north coast of Stroma island and her crew of seven had inflated a life-raft in...
Clarke, Chapman & Co. Ltd
CLARKE CHAPMAN MARINE AU X I L I A R I E S FOR LIFE-BOAT STATIONS This illustrates one of our electrically driven winches as supplied to the Tynemouth Lifeboat Station for hauling up the life-boat.
Many other winches of...
Category: Advertisement
Fishing Boats
Fishermen saved after 20 hours in ferocious blizzard It took a joint effort by the Mallaig and Kyle of Lochalsh lifeboats, RAF and coastguard helicopters and local fishermen to locate two friends who got lost while out whelking on 27...
Preston
HOLY ISLAND.—At 9.30 P.M. on the 13th October, signals of distress were seen on Goswick Sands. The Grace Den-ling Life-boat was launched, and found the Preston, a large screw steamer, of West Hartlepool, ashore there. At the master's...
The Duke of Atholl Former Convener of the Scottish Lifeboat Council With Mrs E P Hill Former Secretary of Gourock Ladies' Guild Mrs Hill Awarded a Gold Badge Had Bee
The Duke of Atholl, former convener of the Scottish Lifeboat Council, with Mrs E. P.
Hill, former secretary of Gourock ladies' guild. Mrs Hill, awarded a gold badge, had been unable to attend the AGM in London in May to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fishing Boats (2)
Arbroath, Angus.—Early on the'morn- ing of the llth of November, 1954, the local fishing fleet put out, but the sea became very rough. The boats made for harbour again, but were unable to enter because the tide was too...
Laura Griffith
The schooner Laura Griffith,bound from Port- madoc to Sunderland with a cargo of slates, was observed at anchor in a dangerous position near the Tuns Bank on the 5th October. As the weather was very threatening and the sea heavy, the...