LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Flower o' Mary
On the evening of the 19th November the steam drifter Flower o' May, of Banff, made to enter the harbour. She was returning from the English fishing grounds, and, being short of coal, had been towed about fifty miles before being cast...
Death of a Gold Medallist
BY the death on 4th August last of Captain T. Fitzgibbon McCombie, M.B.E., the honorary representative in Dublin of the Royal Humane Society, passed away, at the age of 82, a man who, though he was not a life-boatman, had the rare...
Category: Obituaries
Chrysolite
During hazy weather on the 17th October, at about 1.30 A.M. the Coxswain, George Taylor, received a message by telephone from the Amble Coast Guard Station, reporting that signals were being fired from Coquet Island for the Life-boat, as a...
Norden
DOVER.—While a strong gale was blowing from N.E., accompanied by a heavy sea, on the 25th March, 1898, two vessels in the bay showed signals of distress, and at 10 A.M. the Life-boat Lewis Morice put off to their assistance. She first proct...
Boy Ben
At 7.15 P.M.
on 19th September, when a fresh breeze was blowing from the S.W. accom- panied by a rough sea, the St. Nicholas light-vessel fired signals denoting that a vessel was in distress, and about the same time a...
A Gift from Swedish Lloyd
ON the morning of the 25th of May the Swedish Lloyd Steamship Com- pany's new steamer, the 7,700 ton Patricia arrived at Tilbury on her maiden voyage from Gothenburg. She then came up the Thames to the Pool of London, and lay at New...
Category: Donations
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Dover, Kent. At 12.51 on the after- noon of the llth of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that two people were cut off by the tide two hundred yards south of St.
Margaret's Bay. There was a...
Naming Ceremonies: Macduff and Swanage
DESPITE COLD NORTH-EAST WINDS Straight off the sea, hundreds of people gathered at the Fishmarket, Macduff, on Saturday April 3, for the naming of the station's 48' 6" Solent lifeboat Douglas Currie.
She was...
Category: Inaugurations
Marguerite
TWO LIFE-BOATS AND A STEAMER TO THE RESCUE North Sunderland, and Boulmer, North- umberland.—At 4.36 in the afternoon of the 17th of January, 1948, the Seahouses coastguard telephoned to North Sunderland that the local fishing yawl...
Two Boats
Dunbar, Haddingtonshire. At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 9th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the police had reported two small boats in difficulties on the rocks off Dunbar old bathing pool. A strong...