LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management
Reported to the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management.
May Meeting.
Scarborough, Yorkshire. — At 2.15 P.M. on the 1st April the local motor fishing coble B. S. Colling put out to...
Category: Services
North Star
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the 8th of April, 1947, the fishing fleet put to sea at about 6.0 in the morning, but by nine o'clock a gale was blowing from the east, and a heavy sea was making the harbour entrance dangerous. As the tide was too...
The Life-Boats of the United Kingdom. Montrose Branch
LXV. MONTROSE No. 1.—The Mincing Lane, 33 feet by 8J feet, 10 oars.
LXVI. Ditto No. 2.—The Roman Governor of Caer Hun, 30 feet by 8 feet, 10 oa s. ' STANDING upon what may be termed a narrow sandy peninsula, is to be...
Category: Articles
Shields, of Cork
On the 18th June the Iris Life-boat also went out to the assistance of the brig Shields, of Cork, which had gone on the Mahon Rocks, off the coast of Wexford, while the wind was blowing from the W.S.W. The Life-boat remained by the vessel...
A Noble Memorial
GIFTS or bequests for any purposes are always most gratefully received by the Committee of Management. The most acceptable and most generous of all is a gift or bequest for general purposes, which leaves the Committee free to apply it in any...
Category: Advertisement
Services of the Life- Boats of the Institution During 1937
Persons Time of rescued from 1937.
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Category: Services
Life-Boat Societies Abroad
The Royal National Life-boat Institution agreed to a request made at the International Life-boat Conference that it should act as a distributing centre for information which may be of general interest to all Life-boat Societies. The...
Category: Articles
Tribute to H.R.H. Princess Marina
THE NEWS of the passing of Her Royal Highness Princess Marina, President of the Institution for over 25 years, was received with very real sorrow by all connected with the work of life-saving at sea.
Capt. the Hon. V. M....
Category: Articles
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of the late Coxswain Angus McPhail, of Thurso, Caithness-shire, who died on 29th June last, at the age of sixty, after a distinguished career in the life-boat.
He was coxswain for thirteen years...
Category: Articles
A Steamer
In response to signals of distress the Berwick-on-Tweed Life-boat Matthew Simpson put to sea shortly after 4 A.M.
on the 10th November, to assist a motor-boat which was dragging her anchors. The motor-boat had anchored in...