LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mr. Edward Cochran, J.P., Paisley
The Paisley branch has suffered a severe loss by the death, in his eighty- eighth year, of its honorary secretary and treasurer, Mr. Edward Cochran, J.P. He had held that post for twenty- four years, and in 1922 was awarded the life-boat...
Category: Obituaries
Arendal
At 10 A.M. on the 26th March the brig Arendal of Tonsburg, bound to Sunderland with a cargo of props, was making for the harbour, when she came to grief. There was a heavy sea run- ning at the time and the vessel struck the bar and remained...
Fishing Cobles (2)
Between 4 and 5 o'clock on the morning of the 3rd December eleven of the fishing cobles belonging to Whitby put off for fishing, but some hours later the sea increased rapidly and commenced to break heavily right across the entrance to...
A Small Boat (5)
SEPTEMBER 11TH. - ARRANMORE, CO.
DONEGAL. At five in the afternoon three men left Burtonport in a small boat for Arranmore, but they had not arrived by nine o’clock. A strong south-west wind was blowing, with a rough sea....
When In Buckie the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh
A few days later, when in Buckie, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh visited Jones Shipyard, where they saw the 48ft 6in Solent relief lifeboat The Royal British Legion Jubilee, which Her Majesty had named at Henley in 1972, ten years ago;... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Phantee
TOW FOR MOTOR BOAT IN THICK FOG St. Mary's, Scilly Isles. At 7.50 on the evening of the 7th June, 1963, the coxswain learnt that the motor boat Phantee, with two people on board, had gone out fishing at five o'clock and had not yet...
The S.S. Punta
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands.—At 6.45 on the morning of the 22nd of July, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel had gone aground on a reef near the Seven Stones lightship. At 7.10 the life-boat Cunard was...
The Yarmouth Life-Boats. (Continued from "The Life-Boat," August, 1918, p. 233.)
THE night will long be remembered for the almost unparalleled violence of the gale which swept over England, leaving a track of ruin and devastation such as is rarely seen in our temperate climate.
In Gorleston itself the...
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Christmas Cards Can Be Ordered Now
The Institution will have three Christmas cards for sale this year. One will have a reproduction of Tintoretto's painting Christ on the Sea of Galilee'., one will have a reproduction of a specially commissioned painting by David Cobb...
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