LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Aith, Shetland—22nd February. Early in the morning the telephone service having failed, the volunteer-in-charge of the Board of Trade rocket lifesaving apparatus at Walls travelled ten miles to bring news from Lerwick that flares had been...
Mr. Charles Livingston, Liverpool
Mr. Charles Livingston, who died on 2nd May of this year, in his eightieth year, was equally prominent as a ship- owner and a yachtsman on the Mersey.
He was for forty years managing director of Messrs. David Maclver &...
Category: Obituaries
Malabar 13
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 6.25 on the evening of the llth of August, 1951, a member of the local life-boat committee telephoned that a yacht taking part in the Fastnet Race had been dismasted west of the North East Shingles Buoy. She was...
Pitness
Soon after midday on the 27th March the coastguard telephoned that a steam drifter three miles N.E. of Troup was flying a " Not under control " signal.
The motor life-boat Lady Rothes put out at 12.40 P.M. In the...
£50 Prize Offered
UNDER the terms of the Thomas Gray Memorial Trust, the objects of which are "the advancement of the science of invention and the scientific and educa- tional interests of the British Mercantile Marine," the Council of the Royal...
Category: Awards
San Casto
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—At ap- proximately 5.30 on the afternoon of the 4th of May, 1956, the coastguard reported that a member of the crew of the tanker San Casto, of London, had been injured. At 6.10 the life- boat Jeanie Speirs put out...
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Penlee, Cornwall.—23rd January, 1939. Early in the morning information was received from the coastguard that the St. Ives life-boat was out.
At 5 A.M. it was reported that signals had been seen off Clodgy Head.
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A Sailing Dinghy (3)
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 10.24 on the night of the 23rd of March, 1957, a telephone message was received that a man had left the harbour in an open 12-feet sailing dinghy bound for Porte- let Bay at noon but had been seen twice during...
The Arklow Lightvessel
Arklow, Co. Wicklow. At 8.45 on the morning of the 6th of October, 1957, a message was received from the Irish Lights Office that a member of the crew of the Arklow lightvessel had been taken ill. At 9.10 the life-boat Inbhear Mor was...
New Ways of Raising Money
A collecting box placed at Mashford's Boat Yard, where Sir Francis Chichester's Gipsy Moth IV was berthed after her record breaking voyage back to Plymouth., raised £85 for the R.N.L.I.
* * * The...
Category: Donations