LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ken Quinney
Ken Quinney, honorary secretary of Dungeness lifeboat station from 1987 until his death. Mr Quinney was chairman of the station branch committee from 1981 to 1987 when he relinquished the chair, being appointed chairman again in January 1990...
Category: Obituaries
Cairn Glen
On the evening of the 23rd March a telephone message was received from Wick coastguard that the steamer Cairn Glen, of New- castle, was ashore at Huna. She was bound with a general cargo to New- castle, from Halifax. The motor life- boat...
Amstalkirk and Algorab
NO V . 2 5 T H . - WALMER, KENT. The life-boat went out to the help of the Dutch steamer Amstalkirk in a full south-west gale, with very rough seas and dense rain. She was then told to go to another Dutch steamer, the Algorab, of Rotterdam,...
Duke visits life-boats
The Duke of Kent, who is President of the R.N.L.I., made his first trip in a life-boat and took part in a life-saving exercise at sea during his visit to the Isle of Wight on 21st October.
The boat was the Jack Shayler and...
Category: Articles
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Motor Life- boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 7.20 A.M. on 29th February, in a moderate E.S.E. gale with a heavy sea, on receipt of information from the Coastguard that Newarp Lightvessel was firing rockets.
The Coxswain...
New Tractor for Launching
DURING the past six years the Institution has placed Motor Caterpillar Tractors at a number of Stations, where they have been successfully used, instead of horses, for launching Lifeboats off flat sandy beaches, but they are not suitable for...
Category: Articles
Citrine (1)
Early on the morning of the 2nd of January, 1956, the motor vessel Citrine, of Glasgow, sank off the Cornish coast. The Lizard life-boat rescued three of her crew from the sea, and the Coverack life-boat rescued four others from the sea, one...
Susmar
The Lizard—Cadgwith, Cornwall - At 1.42 a.m. on 29th July, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares had been sighted five miles west of the Lizard lighthouse.lighthouse.
At 2.10 the life-boat The...
Four New Scottish Life-Boats Named
DURING the month of August, 1961, no fewer than four new life-boats were named in Scotland. The ceremonies took place at Aith on the 2nd August, at Whitehills on the 12th August, at Port- patrick on the 16th August, and at Buckie on the 26th...
Category: Inaugurations
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