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Coxswain Adam Mcleod, Thurso

Date: October 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 331

Coxswain Adam McLeod, of Thurso, who died in June of this year, had then been coxswain for two years, and had previously been second coxswain for thirteen years. During those fifteen years the Thurso life-boats had rescued 117 lives. When...

Category: Obituaries

September

Date: 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1943

Launches 29. Lives rescued 42.

SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT BARRA ISLAND SEPTEMBER 5TH. - BARRA ISLAND, AND STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES.

At 7 o’clock in the morning a message came from the coastguard that a vessel...

Category: Services

Fund Raisers

Date: Spring 1986

Volume: 50

Issue: 496

Fore! Over 100 members and guests of Sundridge Park Golf Club faced real lifeboating weather when they took part in a sponsored charity tournament in April, the idea of the men's and ladies' captains of the club, Vic and Bridie...

Category: Articles

Cantabria

Date: March 1933

Volume: 29

Issue: 313

On December 13th a telephone message was received from the Hope Cove Coastguard that a vessel was ashore between Prawle Point and Greystones. The Motor Life-boat Alfred and Clara Heath was launched at 4.45 A.M., in a strong N.E. breeze, with...

Diesel Engines In Life-Boats

Date: September 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 373

WHEN diesel engines were first fitted into a life-boat in 1932 a new policy was adopted which was to be of the greatest importance in the history of life-boat construction. Just how im- portant this development has been isshown by the fact...

Category: Articles

Up the Pole

Date: Spring 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 508

(Photo courtesy Southern Newspapers). - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

A Dinghy

Date: April 1972

Volume: 42

Issue: 439

NARROW SHAVE ON COD ROCKS PEOPLE at Tre-Arddur Bay, Anglesey, on 2nd September, 1971, saw a dinghy capsize about 50 to 100 yards south west of Cod Rocks. Maroons were fired immediately and at 4.50 p.m. the ILB was launched from Forth...

Scotland Community News

Date: Summer 2017

Volume: 61

Issue: 620 Lifeboat Magazine Summer 2017

MACDUFF

SQUAREMEN SUPPORT

Ye Corporation O' Squaremen are supporting 17 local causes this year, and the volunteers at Macduff Lifeboat Station are delighted to be
one of those causes. A...

Category: Articles

Facilities at the Lifeboat College

Date: Summer 2005

Volume: 60

Issue: 573

Facilities at The Lifeboat College in Poole include a fire simulator and live engine workshop. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Aurora

Date: November 1877

Volume: 10

Issue: 106

BROUGHTY FERRY, DUNDEE.—At 4 A.M.

on the 1st June, the Life-boat English Mechanic, of this station, proceeded out of the river to the assistance of the schooner Aurora, of Christiania, which vessel was ashore on the Coal...