LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Maureen
TOW FOR YACHT WITH ENGINE BREAKDOWN Troon, Ayrshire. At 3.30 on the afternoon of the 7th September, 1962, the pilot at Troon harbour informed the honorary secretary that a small cabin cruiser appeared to be in difficulties and drifting close...
May
Penlee, Cornwall. At 12.48 on the afternoon of the 18th of February, 1960, the motor mechanic told the honorary secretary that a fishing boat had broken down close to the rocks at Tol-Pedn. At one o'clock the life-boat W. and S. was...
Warnford Tea
Drinking Tea Saves Lives! BOAT BOAT TEA BAGS No, this is not a new medical discovery.
But it is true, because every time an 80-tea bag packet of Lifeboat Tea is sold, four pence is contributed to the Royal National...
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Warnford Tea
Drinking Tea Saves Lives! BOAT BOAT] TEA TEA BAGS No, this is not a new medical discovery.
But it is true, bcc.uise every time an 80-tea bag packet of Lifeboat Tea is sold, four pence is contributed to the Royal National...
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Whisky Galore
Sir Charles McGrigor (convenor of the Scottish Lifeboat Council) and Lady McGrigor recently attended a reception and presentation at Oban Distillery. Also present were members of Oban lifeboat crew and Captain Norman MacLeod, station... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Storm King and Petrel
MONTBOSE.—On the morning of the 10th October, while the tug Storm King was towing the schooner Petrel, of and for Montrose, from Balta Sound, Shetland, the tow line broke, and the schooner went on the " Leads " rocks. A fresh N.E....
Ex-Coxswain John W. Bushell, of Blyth
Coxswain John William Bushell, of Blyth, who died on 24th September, at the age of 61, was for nearly twenty- four years the coxswain of the Blyth life-boat, and before that had been its second coxswain for two years. He won, by his...
Category: Obituaries
Captain H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh, E.G., R.N.
FROM the moment that Her Majesty's fine frigate the Galatea* left our shores in the spring of last year, under the command of the youthful Duke of Edinburgh, to visit our colonies in the southern hemisphere, and to convey to them in...
Category: Articles
Crusier, of Hartlepool
On the 3rd December, in a fresh gale and heavy swell, with falls of snow and sleet, a brig was observed, apparently near the Goodwin Sands, with a signal of distress in the main rigging, and soon afterwards she was seen to cut away both...
Clarinda
Hastings, Sussex.—At 8.34 on the morning of the llth of September, 1957, the Fairlight coastguard tele- phoned to sav a cabin cruiser was burning flares off Fairlight look-out.
At 9.2 the life-boat M.T.C. was launched....