LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Firth Fisher
SEAMAN LANDED Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. At 11.55 a.m. on 23rd May, 1964, the coastguard told the chairman of the branch committee that the motor vessel Firth Fisher was heading for Portpatrick with an injured seaman aboard. A doctor, who...
Evening Star
Arbroath, Angus - At 1.33 p.m. oa 9th April, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing boat Evening Star was lying off the harbour. At 1.45 the life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn, on temporary duty at the...
Lifeboat Services
VERY LITTLE SEAROOM AND FUEL OIL ON THE DECKS Two services in eight days to factory ships - 40 men saved The joint second coxswain of the Lerwick lifeboat, William Clark, has achieved the rare distinction of being awarded the RNLI's...
Category: Services
Fortuna
Shortly after five o'clock on the evening of the 24th December, a schooner anchored near to the Clipera Rooks, and a few minutes afterwards signals of distress were made by those on board. The steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland was...
Mrs. Margaret Armstrong, of Cresswell
ANOTHER great figure on the North- East Coast has also passed away by the death on 2nd February last of Mrs.
Margaret Armstrong, of Cresswell. She was perhaps the best known of that devoted body of women who, in the little...
Category: Obituaries
My Susanne
FISHING BOAT SAVED FROM ROCKY GRAVE At 4.12 a.m. on 24th January, 1972, the Flamborough coastguard told Mr. Arthur Dick, the honorary secretary, Bridllngton, that the m.f.v. My Susanne was sending out radio messages requesting life-boat...
Crew Thrown Out of IRB
Two brothers, Christopher and John Cook, who formed the crew of the Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, inshore rescue boat, and a 64 year old retired doctor, Dr.
Harrison Broadbent, have received letters of appreciation signed by the...
Category: Services
Fishing Cobles
NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND. — At about 10 o'clock on the morning of the 2nd of February, the sea became very heavy, and several fishing cobles, which had gone out at 5 o'clock, ran much danger -while returning ashore. The Life-boat...
RNLI WEST COUNTRY MARKETING GROUP
Royal Marines Band Recordings for the RNIJ A special relationship has been established between the Royal Marines and the RNLI following tlie commissioning, and composition by Trevor Browne, a Royal Marine, of the "Lifeboatmen". the...
Category: Advertisement
Nona
Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 8.35 on the evening of the 4th of July, 1956, the Southend coastguard rang up to say that a yacht was ashore at Cleats Point two hundred yards off shore.
The life-boat City of Glasgow II put...