LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Naming Ceremonies In Scotland. Aith, Shetlands, and Broughty Ferry, Dundee
Aith, Shetland*, and Droughty Ferry, Dundee.
Two naming ceremonies of new motor life-boats took place in Scotland during September, at Aith in the Shetlands and Broughty Ferry, Dundee. Both life- boats were the gifts of...
Category: Inaugurations
May
Launches 53. Lives rescued 27.
MAY 1ST. - CROMARTY. At 7.40 A.M. a message was received from the Cromarty coastguard that two airmen had been seen in the sea off Brora, and at 8.20 A.M. the motor life-boat James Macfee was...
Category: Services
Below Left - Committee Members of Dartford
Below left - committee members of Dartford and district branch dress up and rattle collecting buckets at the Dartford Show. The colourful bunch managed to raise £ 114 for lifeboat funds on the day.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Letters
Bitter sweet home-coming In September of last year my boyfriend and I were returning home after cruising abroad for almost two years. Unfortunately we were in collision with another vessel (I need not go into the details of the incident...
Category: Correspondence
Buckie Life-Boat Puts Off on Service to the "Elm Grove"
(see page 55). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Services
SURVIVORS WALK TO LIFEBOAT Fourteen saved from yacht aground on the Goodwin Sands Both of Ramsgate's lifeboats were called to an incident on the Goodwin Sands on 13 November 1994, when a French sail-training vessel went aground in a WSW...
Category: Services
Capable
On the 6th August the motor vessel Capable, of London, ran aground in Bigbury Bay in a dense fog, while bound to London with a cargo of stone.
She carried a crew of eight. The Master sent a man ashore, and the news was sent...
Getting the Reserve Life-Boat Grace Darling Launched In May, 1970,
Getting the reserve life-boat Grace Darling launched in May, 1970, when she was taken by a Bridlington crew from Flamborough to Bridlington.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Salvage Payments to Life-Boats' Crews
WE revert to this subject, because we think it very important that it should be under- stood, and because a legal decision has re- cently been given in an important case, which will no doubt hereafter have the authority of a precedent, and...
Category: Articles
Minerva
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 3.40 in the afternoon of the 25th of July, 1947, distress signals made by a steam whistle could be heard. In a dense fog the motor life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was launched at...