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Mr Hugh Morrison, MBE

Date: Winter 1988

Volume: 50

Issue: 503

Mr Hugh Morrison, MBE honorary secretary at Barra lifeboat station from 1946 to 1986. He was awarded a gold badge in 1977 and was appointed an honorary life governor in 1986..

Category: Obituaries

Capsize on Loch Ness

Date: Autumn 2011

Volume: 61

Issue: 597 Lifeboat Magazine Autumn 2011

Rough conditions on Loch Ness proved too much for a pair of experienced sailors on 12 August. When their dinghy capsized, they were not able to right her as her mast had got stuck on submerged rocks. A passing research and tourist vessel...

Category: Articles

People & Places

Date: Winter 1988

Volume: 50

Issue: 503

Boat Show '88 The organisers of this year's London Boat Show at Earls Court in January generously provided a stand next to the RNLI, for a display paying their own tribute to Grace Darling in the 150th anniversary year of the rescue...

Category: Articles

Bookshelf

Date: Spring 1994

Volume: 53

Issue: 528

Dial 999 - Emergency Services in Action by John Creighton ISBN 1-85058-297-1 published by Sigma Leisure at £9.95 John Creighton has spent some time as an operational firefighter and in the maritime rescue services, so is well qualified...

Category: Articles

November

Date: 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1944

Launches 51 Lives rescued 52 NOVEMBER 3RD. - WELLS, NORFOLK.

At 5.42 in the evening, information was received from the naval authorities at Great Yarmouth, through the coastguard, that a motor vessel; outside Wells harbour...

Category: Services

Glenway

Date: Spring 1951

Volume: 33

Issue: 358

Caister, Norfolk.—At 10.10 on the night of the 6th of May, 1951, a resident of Newport Hemsby telephoned that a ship was ashore off Newport Hemsby.

So at 10.30 the life-boat Jose Neville was launched in a choppy sea, with a...

People and Places

Date: Spring 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 500

Model effort Gordon Davies, of Waunwen, Swansea, a distant relation of William Gammon, coxswain of The Mumbles lifeboat Edward Prince of Wales, lost on service 40 years ago, has recently completed a labour of love in his memory, a 12th scale...

Category: Articles

Franklin Mint Limited,

Date: Summer 1999

Volume: 57

Issue: 549

From the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (USA) - THE OFFICIAL RAINBOW TROUT COLLECTOR PENKNIFE fe* Collector's Edition.

Handsomely Engraved.

Created by World-Renowned Wildlife Artist Rick Fields...

Category: Articles

A Hundred Years Ago

Date: June 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 376

AN invention has recently been brought to perfection, and patented, which we think we may fairly charac- terize as one of the most ingenious of modern times. This invention, which is the production of Mr. J. Boydell, an engineer of...

Category: Articles

Swiftsure

Date: December 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 390

Wick, Caithness-shire. At 2.15 on the morning of the 4th of September, 2959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel had gone ashore on the north side of Wick harbour in thick fog. At 2.55 the life- boat City of...