LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Duke of Kent's
The Duke of Kent's first visit on Orkney on May 10 was to Longhope where he laid a wreath at the memorial to the eight lifeboatmen who lost their lives in the disaster of 1969. The Memorial was unveiled by HM The Queen Mother in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Finnish Three-Masted Sailing Barque Alastor
Droughty Ferry, Angus.—Shortly before 9 A.M. on the 19th December, 1938, information was received from the pilot cutter and the coastguard that a vessel was in distress a quarter of a mile E.N.E. of the Abertay...
A Dinghy and a Salvage Lighter
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 8.45 on the evening of the 21st of September, 1953, the Ryde police rang up to say that a man was missing in a dinghy between No Man's Fort and Horse Sand Fort. At 8.51 the life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched....
An Adventurous Life
Man the Hopes (Hodder and Stoughton, 12s. (Jd.) is the autobiography of Mr.
Augustine Courtauld, a Vice-President and a member of the Committee of Management. It tells the story of an engrossing and adventurous life: of his...
Category: Articles
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,Aith Shetland*.— At 1.10 on the after- noon of the 15th of April, 1957, a doctor, after consulting with the Medi- cal Officer of Health, asked if the life- boat would take him to Foula to visit a very sick woman who, he suspected, might...
Several Fishing Boats
A little before nightfall on the 29th September, several fishing- boats belonging to this place were over- taken by a heavy gale of wind. They were seen from the shore making for Craigenrow Bay, ten miles east of Buckie, where they took...
Sailing Today
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Category: Advertisement
The Duke of Montrose
THE DUKE OF MOXTROSE, who had been associated with the Life-boat Service for nearly fifty years and had been Treasurer of the Institution and Chairman of the Scottish Life-boat Council, died on the 20th of January, 1954.
He...
Category: Obituaries
Colonel J. Benskin
COLONEL JOSEPH BENSKIN, D.S.O., O.B.E., died on the 14th of July, 1953.
He had been a member of the Com- mittee of Management since 1929 and a Vice-President since 1948. He was appointed a member of the Finance Committee in...
Category: Obituaries
Coxswain John Boyle, of Arranmore
ONE of the most distinguished of Irish coxswains, John Boyle, of Arranmore, died on the 5th of September, 1949, at the age of 57. He served as an officer of the life-boat for 23 years, as bow- man from 1926 to 1928, and then as coxswain...
Category: Obituaries