LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

As the revolving year comes round, the direful effects of storms and shipwrecks are vividly brought tinder our notice by the details of the Wreck Kegister recently issued under the auspices of the Board of Trade. From it we regret to observe...

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THE gales at the end of December reached their worst on the 27th, on the which day ten launches took place round the coast, From the Isle of Wight it was reported that "the damage ashore was not so great as in November, but at sea condi...

Lieut.-Col. Sir John Collie, C.M.G., M.D., J.P., the distinguished physician and the authority on malingering, died on 3rd April at the age of seventy-five.

He had been a member of the committee of management since April,...

On the 17th of January, 1951, the Mallaig life-boat rescued the crew of 62 of the motor vessel Tapti of London.

The Institution awarded its thanks inscribed on vellum to Coxswain Ian B. Watt, and to him and each member of...

On the 8th of November, 1956, the St. David's life-boat was launched to help the French trawler Notre Dame de Fatima, which was in distress three miles south-west of Skokholm light.

The life-boat rescued the trawler'...

HONOURS bestowed on those associated with the Life-boat Service in the Birthday Honours for 1957 included: Knight Bachelor Air Commodore A. V. Harvey, C.B.E., M.P., a member of the Committee of...

Thurso, Caithness-shire - At 10.30 a.m. on 12th March, 1968, a message was received that a member of the crew of the s.s. Explorer of Leith had suffered a heart attack. The life-boat Pentland (Civil Service No. 31) was launched at 11.30. It...