LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rear Admiral Desmond Hoare Has Been Accorded the Institution's Sincere Thanks On
Rear Admiral Desmond Hoare has been accorded the Institution's sincere thanks on vellum for the experimental design work he did for rigid inflatable lifeboats while Provost of the United College of the Atlantic, as well as for his work... - View image in PDF
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Peter Fulton
Four presentations were made at Newton Road Civil Service Club, Leeds, on July 13: (I. to r.) to George Long, the thanks of the Institution for his services on the flag day committee; to L. Bellhouse, a plaque for raising over £1,000... - View image in PDF
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During the London Boat Show Des Sleightholme Editor of Yachting Monthly
During the London Boat Show Des Sleightholme, editor of Yachting Monthly, presented a painting to Coxswain Mike Scales (r) of St Peter Port lifeboat, Guernsey. The painting, which is by Laurence Baglev, standing on the left, is of the... - View image in PDF
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Fishing Cobles
JANUARY 29TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
During the morning, while thirteen Filey fishing cobles were at sea, a strong N.E.
wind sprang up. All the regular life-boat crew were out fishing, but ex-coxswain R. C....
The Norwegan Barque Iris
On the 14th February the Norwegian barque Iris, of Stavager, had several of her sails blown away in a terrific gale off the Mull of Cantyre, and was compelled to run for Machrihannish Bay, where she let go both her bower anchors. Being...
The S.S. Margo
MARCH 8TH. - PENLEE, CORNWALL.
At 2.28 P.M. the coastguard called for the life-boat to go out to a steamer to bring off some wounded men. A N.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat W. and S. was launched...
H.M.S. Glendower
OCTOBER 4TH. - PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSIIIRE.
At 8.40 P.M. the Abersoch coastguard reported that the R.A.F. at Penrhos had seen flares eastwards of St. Tudwall’s Island, at 9 P.M. that an aeroplane was down in the sea, and at...
The S.S. Obsidian
Troon, Ayrshire.—At 11.40 on the night of the 6th of November, 1952, the Portpatrick coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Obsidian, of Glasgow, had wirelessed distress signals, giving her position as four miles west-by-north of Ayr. At 12.5...
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Girls rescued from chilly loch
Two young girls playing in a dinghy on 19 May found themselves drifting into open water and jumped overboard to try to swim to shore.
A honeymooning couple spotted them struggling and called the Coastguard. Loch Ness...
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