LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
International Congress of the Breton Life-Saving Society
A VERY interesting International Con- gress on life-saving took place at St.
Malo, Brittany, between the 4th and 12th August. It had been organised by La Soci6te des Hospitaliers Sauveteurs Bretons, in celebration of their...
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Foresters Friendly to RNLI history
Foresters Friendly Society, which has an enduring relationship with the RNLI, is sponsoring the RNLI Heritage Trust through 2011.
The sponsorship coincides with the RNLI being chosen by the Society’s High Chief Ranger,...
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SICK MAN TAKEN OFF DRIFTER Humber, Yorkshire. At 3.18 on the morning of the 21st September, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a member of the crew of the drifter Tea Rose of Fraserburgh was thought to have...
Hidden Depths: Women of the RNLI
Hidden Depths:
Women of the RNLI
by Sue Hennessy
Review by Jayne Woods
Gentle, informative and entertaining, Hidden Depths: Women of the RNLI is a charming collection of...
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Danish Honour for the Life-Boat Men of Johnshaven
IT is with much pleasure that we record that the King of Denmark has gener- ously recognised the courageous, but tragic, service of the Johnshaven Life- boat James Marsh, last December, to the Danish schooner Fredensborg. The service was...
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Anna, of Rensburgh
ANSTRUTHER, N.B.—As one of the congregations of this town were coming out of church on the evening of the 26th March, the signal gun was fired to summon the crew of the Life-boat Admiral Fitzroy. The schooner Anna, ofRensburgh, had been...
Annual Awards 1980
The Maud Smith Award for the most outstanding act of lifesaving during 1980 has been made to Coxswain/ Mechanic Malcolm Macdonald of Stornoway for the rescue of 29 men from the trawler Junella on September 29. In a strong southerly gale and...
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A Fishing Boat
— At about noon on the llth January, during a whole S.E. gale with very heavy squalls, and a rough sea, it was reported to Coxswain McEachran that a fishing- boat on a lee shore in the Loch had broken adrift, collided with and badly damaged...
The Minesweeper Mastiff and Spartel
NOV. 2 0 T H . - MARGATE, KENT. At 10.45 A.M. the coastguard reported that a minesweeper was sinking, as a result of enemy action, a mile east of the Tongue Light-vessel. The minesweeper was the Mastiff. Five minutes later the motor...
Fluidity
SICK MAN LANDED Margate, Kent.—At 8.57 on the night of the 6th of January, 1948, the motor life-boat Lord Southborough—Civil Service No. 1, was launched in a strong south-south-west breeze with a rough sea to search for an aeroplane reported...