LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

By the death on 16th May, at the age of eighty, of Major Sir Maurice Cameron, K.C.M.G., a vice-president of the Institution, the committee of manage- ment have lost one of their most valued and active members. After a dis- tinguished career,...

AT 7.15 on the evening of the 12th of June, 1960, the police at Bo'ness learnt that a boat had capsized two hundred yards east of the Hen and Chickens buoy off Culross in the Firth of Forth. There was no boat available in Bo'ness...

THE life-boat journal on the 1st of January, 1858, in describing a wreck which occurred at Brighton on the 8th of October, 1857, reported: "There were at that time three life-boats at Brighton; one, we believe, belonging to the town...

Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—About 4.0 on the afternoon of the 8th of March, 1951, the skipper of the steam trawler St. Philip, of Fleetwood, asked for help to refloat his ship, which had run on the rocks west of Castlebay pier. At 4.15 the...

Amble, Northumberland. At 9.15 p.m. on i Qth April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the weather conditions were deteriorating and as the local fishing coble Provider was still at sea, it was decided to launch the...

Motor Boats and Motor Boating by Hilary and K. J. Wickham (Stanley Paul, 255) can be recommended as a clearly written and sensible guide to those who are planning to take to the water for their own pleasure. The book is directed to beginners...

Scotland South Division Two lifeboats capsize and right A DANISH CARGO VESSEL, Lone Diinia, in distress six miles north west of Skerryvore Lighthouse was reported by HM Coastguard to the honorary secretary of Barra Island lifeboat station at...

Cardiff ladies' guild increased their income in 1976 by about 30 per cent.

Of the £5,010 they raised for the lifeboat service last year £1,460 was by way of their annual collection and £1,000 was the...