LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat
The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of a 34 feet by 7£ feet self-righting boat. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view, the shaded part showing that devoted to the air-cases, which give extra...
Category: Articles
Dr A. Wattison,
Dr A. Wattison, chairman of Anstruther station branch. He was honorary medical adviser at Anstruther for over 25 years, being awarded the Scottish Council Record of Thanks. Dr Wattison became chairman of the branch in 1982..
Category: Obituaries
Pass-o-Leny (1)
DEC. 1ST. - LYTHAM - ST. ANNE’S, LANCASHIRE, AND NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 8.45 A.M. the Lytham secondcoxswain reported a vessel ashore by Peet’s Light, south of the 12th Mile Beacon. A S.W.
gale was blowing, with a heavy...
None (2)
ROADS BLOCKED WITH SNOW Lerwick, Shetland.—At 10.55 on the night of the 5th of March, 1947, a doctor who was urgently needed for a maternity case at Aithsetter, asked the life-boat to take him as the roads were impassable. A moderate...
A Dinghy and Iris
Canipbeltown, Argyll - At 1.24 p.m.
on 8th May, 1970, news was received that two men in a dinghy were being swept out to sea off Corriegravie.
The life-boat Michael Stephens, on temporary duty at the...
The Life-Boat Service In France
LA SOCIETK CENTRALE DE SAUVETAGE DBS NAUFRAGES, which has its head- quarters in Paris, was established in 1865, and has done excellent work in life-saving, having been the means of rescuing, up to the 1st March last, 13,915 lives from a...
Category: Articles
Centenaries In the North-West
Two life-boat stations in the north- west, Barrow and Blackpool, cele- brated their centenaries in April and June.
It was commercial travellers who raised money for the first 36-foot sail- ing life-boat to be stationed...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Saturday Fund
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PRESIDENT OF THE LADIES' AUXILIARIES— H.K.H. The PRINCESS OF WALES.
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Category: Articles
Police Raise £250,000
Right: Smiles all round as Dr Ian Oliver, chief constable of Grampian Police and chairman of the Police Appeal steering committee, with Crimewatch presenter Sue Cook, hands over the Police Appeal cheque to RNLI Director U Cmdr Brian... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Folk-Boat Huckleberry Finn
Weymouth, Dorset - At 6.50 p.m.
on 29th May, 1966, a yacht reported that the folk-boat Huckleberry Finn was dismasted and adrift about eight and a half miles south east of the Shambles lightvessel.
The...