LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Salmond visit
Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond called into Queensferry Lifeboat Station on 22 June. He was shown around the station, introduced to the crew and presented with a framed photo of Queensferry’s Atlantic 75 lifeboat Donald and Ethel Macrae...
Category: Articles
The Launch Victor and Lulworth Castle
Dungeness, Kent. At 10.41 on the morning of the 28th of July, 1960, thecoastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a vessel towing a cabin cruiser appeared to have broken down.
She was drifting broadside and flying a...
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FEBRUARY 22ND. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
Morse signals thought to be an S.O.S. had been reported, but no vessel in need of help could be found. - Rewards, £11 10s..
The Four-Masted Vessel Hougomont
MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND.—The gale of the 27th February, which is described as a " perfect hurricane," drove the Hougomont, a large four-masted vessel of 2,000 tons, ashore at Allonby, -when bound from San Francisco to Liverpool with a...
Although the Majority of the Funding for Exmouth's
Although the majority of the funding for Exmouth's new Trent class Forward Birmingham came from an appeal in the City whose name she bears, her building was only possible because the appeal was topped up by no less than 13 smaller... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
From the Fighting Services.
The lighting services have given as never before. Last year they gave £19.385- The Air Force gave eleven times as much as in the last year of peace; the Navy twelve .times as much; the Array twenty-one times as much..
Category: Articles
Jean Edmonds
FEB. 22ND. - LERWICK, SHETLAND.
At 10.45 A.M. a message was received from a trawler agent and the coastguard that the trawler Jean Edmonds, of Aberdeen, had broken down with boiler trouble, and had asked for the life-boat....
Sunningdale, of Grimsby
At 11.10 p.m. on 30th April, 1967, the owner of the trawler Sunningdale of Grimsby informed the coxswain that the vessel had run short of fuel and required assistance. The vessel was at anchor eight miles south south east of Spurn...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain James Tait, of Aith, Shetlands. He was appointed coxswain when a life- boat station was established at Aith in 1933..
Category: Articles
Marion, Industry, Telegraph
The steamer G.K.C., of Noirmontiers, stranded on the Doom Bar on the 4th May. The schooner was first observed making for the harbour at 8.45 A.M., and, after rounding Stepper Point, she struck the Bar. The No. 1 Life-boat Arab was promptly...