LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dr. Leonard Gow, LL.D., D.L., Glasgow
No one has given more notable, generous and successful help to the life-boat service in Scotland than Dr.
Leonard Gow, LL.D., D.L., of Glasgow, who died on llth March, at the age of seventy-seven. Dr. Gow was the hon- orary...
Category: Obituaries
An Exhibition of Life-Boat Photographs
THE first exhibition of life-boat photographs to be held was shown in London in June and July. It consisted of upwards of seventy photographs taken all round the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland. The photographs showed wrecks, the...
Category: Articles
Naming Ceremony: Fleetwood
The naming of Lady of Lancashire FLEETWOOD'S NEW 44' WAVENEY LIFEBOAT by HRH The Duke of Kent PRESIDENT OF THE RNLIA LARGE CROWD lined the seafront at Fleetwood to see HRH The Duke of Kent name the new lifeboat. The early evening sun...
Category: Inaugurations
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YOUNG PAIR RESCUE BOYS AT ABOUT 5.30 p.m. on 29th May, 1972, three young children were playing on the outer pier of North Sunderland harbour. The wind was westerly force 4-5 with a long heavy swell coming in from a north-easterly direction....
Launching and Recovery—Part I: Slipway Stations By Edward Wake- Walker Assistant Public Relations Officer (London)
IN THE ACCOUNT of the service by Padstow lifeboat to the coaster Skopelos Sky which appeared in the summer edition of the journal, there was an unusual addendum. Unlike most reports that begin with words to the effect that 'the lifeboat...
Category: Articles
Ceremonies
The Mumbles, August 29, 1986: A bi-ling ceremony was the order of the day when The Mumbles' new 16ft D class inflatable lifeboat was dedicated with prayers in Welsh and English. After Dr Hudson, chairman of the station committee, had...
Category: Inaugurations
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THE Thirty-third Annual Meeting of this excellent Society was held at the Cannon Street Hotel, on the 15th May last. In the absence of the President, His Grace the DUKE OF MABLBOROUGH, the Chair was taken by Admiral the Hon. ARTHUR...
Category: Meetings
Norval, of Seaham
Again, Oh the 31st October, the brigan- tine Noroal, of Seaham, while lying at anchor in Yarmouth Roads, sprang a leak, and the water gained on the vessel so fast that signals of distress were made, where- upon the Caister No. 1 Life-boat...
Lapwing, of Liverpool
DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.—On the 18th February the brigantine Lapwing, of Liverpool, bound from that port to New Calabar, was at anchor in a dangerous position, having previously lost sails, &c., in Douglas Bay; the master and part of the...
Psyche, of Swansea
REDCAR.—On the 25th September at 10 • 30P.M., the schooner Psyche of Swansea went ashore on the rocks off Kedcar, and the Life-boat Burton-on-Trent was launched to her assistance. Hear-Admiral KOBERTSON, Assistant Inspector of Lifeboats to...