LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
John Geddes Chairman of Peterhead Branch
Overbearing presence? Ed MacFarland (I), general manager of Marathon Oil operations office in Aberdeen presents a cheque for $10,000 to John Geddes, chairman of Peterhead branch, in the company of a reasonably benevolent looking witness. The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Silver Medal for Whitby Life-Boatman
The King has awarded the Silver Medal for Gallantry in Saving Life at Sea to John Robert Harland, of the Whitby life-boat crew, for diving overboard to the rescue of a fisherman in a heavy sea. As announced in the last issue, the Institution...
Category: Articles
Gleneden (2)
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT MOELFRE JANUARY 28TH - 29TH. - HOLYHEAD, AND MOELFRE, ANGLESEY, AND LLANDUDNO. CAERNARVONSHIRE.
At 7.30 in the evening of the 29th of January, 1940, a message came to the Moelfre life-boat station...
Rescue of Bathers In Distress
TWICE during th? past summer Life- boats have saved the lives of bathers who had got into difficulties. On each occasion the Life-boat was out on other duties and went to the rescue in the nick of time.
On the afternoon...
Category: Services
Centenaries of Life-Boat Stations
IN 1957 three life-boat stations celebrated the centenary of their foundation.
These were the stations at Great Yarmouth & Gorleston, Caister and Wicklow.
Caister can claim, among other distinctions,...
Category: Articles
Bronze Medals for Two Scottish Coxswains. St. Andrews, Fifeshire and Thurso, Caithness-Shire
St. Andrews, Fifeshire, and Thurso, Caithness-shire.
Two gallant services were carried out by Life-boats in Scotland during March., one by the Pulling and Sailing Life- boat at St. Andrews, Fifeshire, and the other by the...
Category: Medals
Sterry and Robert Henry
The same Life-boat was launched about 11.15 P.M., on the 9th March, inresponse to flares shown in Margate Roads by the steam launch Sterry, of Lowestoft, bound to Penzance with coal, which was found riding to her anchor in about four fathoms...
District Conferences
South-West of England.
AT this conference delegates from twenty-two branches and Ladies' Life- boat Guilds in Cornwall, Devonshire and Somerset met at Plymouth on the 22nd March. Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the...
Category: Meetings
Oberon
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—On the 28th August three men, with two small boys and a boatman, put out from Totland Bay in the motor launch Oberon to go fishing. The boat's engine broke down and she drifted on to Shingle Bank, which is in an...
A Boat (1)
LONG SEARCH FOR UNLIT BOAT Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland.
At 10.10 on the evening of Tuesday the 20th of August, 1963, what appeared to be burning material was seen a number of times about half a mile off shore and two...