LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mr Hugh Morrison, MBE
Mr Hugh Morrison, MBE honorary secretary at Barra lifeboat station from 1946 to 1986. He was awarded a gold badge in 1977 and was appointed an honorary life governor in 1986..
Category: Obituaries
Thurne
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 17th of September, 1952, the Foreland coast- guard telephoned that a sailing yacht was in distress two miles south-east of the look-out hut, near the Princessa Buoy. Ten...
From Golf and Bowling Clubs
DURING 1947 over forty golf clubs held competitions for the Life-boat Service and these brought it £256.
Five bowling clubs also held con petitions which brought £25, a total of £281..
Category: Donations
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
WICKLOW, IRELAND.—A branch of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has been recently founded at Wicklow, and a life-boat on Mr. BEECHING'S prize model modified in correspondence with the boats on the Institution's plan has been...
Category: Articles
The Last 18Ft 6In Mclachlan (Left)
The Last 18Ft 6In Mclachlan (Left). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Sailboard (1)
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 1628 and at 1635...
Trent Named at Sunderland
Saturday 30 August saw one of the hottest days of the month for the naming ceremony of Sunderland's new Trent class lifeboat, Macquarie (shown right).
Sunderland station branch chairman, Mr G. Snowball, opened... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 7. Major Herbert Edgar Burton, O.B.E., R.E., Hon. Superintendent of the Tynemouth Motor Life-Boat
No. 7. Major Herbert Edgar Button, O.B.E., RE., Hon. Superintendent of the Tynemouth Motor Life-boat.
No county in Great Britain has a finer record of Life-boat service than Northumberland. It was at Bamburgh, in...
Category: Articles
150th Anniversary Celebrations In Scotland
ON SUNDAY, December 1, 1974, a service of thanksgiving and dedication on the 150th anniversary of the founding of the RNLI was held in St Giles' Cathedral, the High Kirk of Edinburgh. It was a simple but moving service, with clergy from...
Category: Articles
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