LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Argo
CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE.—The barque Argo, of Fredrikstad, was totally wrecked near Macharioch on the 27th February, but happily nine of her crew were saved. The crew of the Life-boat at Southend were assembled, but as it was very doubtful...
An Aeroplane (114)
AUGUST 31ST. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. An aeroplane had crashed over the Naze, and the pilot was seen to leave the machine by parachute, but he could not be found, and it was learnt later that he had come down on land. - Rewards, £6...
Random Harvest
Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 9.10 p.m.
on 24th April, 1964, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Random Harvest had received a radio telephone message that the trawler Lemberg of Grimsby...
Dashed to Life-Boat In Tails
While at his wedding reception on 22nd June, 1968, a Barmouth life-boatman, Mr. John H. Stockford, aged 30, was called to a fishing boat with engine trouble. As the life-boat, The Chieftain, sailed to the boat's assistance in Cardigan...
Category: Articles
New Ways of Raising Money
Miss J. McADAM of Monessie, Dalvreck, Crieff, has compiled instructions for a Montrose reel dedicated to the late Chairman of the Scottish Life-boat Council, the Duke of Montrose. All royalties from the sale of the music and the instructions...
Category: Donations
The Ketches The Norvic and The Doric
At about 11 A.M.
on the 19th August information was received that two large ketches had stranded on the N.W. part of the Margate sand. The weather at the time being very unsettled with a strong N.N.W. breeze and choppy...
The Italian Vessel S.S. Concordia (1)
DURING the south-westerly gales of extraordinary violence, which burst over the south-west and south of England in the second week of July, and lasted for two or three days, eight Life-boats along the south coast were launched, and three of...
Bronze Medal for Weymouth
AT the beginning of June the twin-screw motor yacht Mite (a converted naval motor launch 110 feet long) was coming up Channel on her way from Malta to London. On the 6th of June, when she was fifteen miles west of Portland Bill, both her...
Category: Services
Two Naming Ceremonies In Scotland. Aith, Shetlands, and Broughty Ferry, Dundee
Aith, Shetland*, and Droughty Ferry, Dundee.
Two naming ceremonies of new motor life-boats took place in Scotland during September, at Aith in the Shetlands and Broughty Ferry, Dundee. Both life- boats were the gifts of...
Category: Inaugurations
Auxiliary Rescue-boats
In 1941 the Air Ministry asked the Institution if it could open more stations on the west coast of Ireland for the help of aeroplanes which were forced down by bad weather, failure of fuel or injury in battle, as they flew in from the...
Category: Articles