LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Caroline, Seaward, Phoenician, and Reaper
Similar service was rendered on the 10th December by the Life-boat to the crews, numbering in all eighteen men, of the schooners Caroline, Seaward, Phoenician, and Reaper. A very severe gale from the W.N.W. had suddenly sprung up, causing a...
Wanderer and a Cabin Cruiser
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 2.45 on the afternoon of the 21st of October, 1956, the St. Anthony coastguard telephoned that the yacht Wanderer, which was towing a cabin cruiser, appeared to be in difficulties off St. Anthony...
A Dinghy and a Yacht
North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At 12.2 p.m. on 2ist September, 1965, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized in Newton Bay and that two people were believed to be on board. At 12.5 the IRB...
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Society
A MEETING of the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Society was held at their offices, Hibernian Chambers, London Bridge, on the 26th February last, His Grace the Duke of MARLBOROUGH, President, in the chair, the following members of...
Category: Meetings
West Kilbride and Seamill Branch
How to keep dry and keep raising money at Scottish open air events.
West Kilbride and Seamill branch use a standard canvas extension attached to a caravanette when they go out to sell souvenirs. The branch is only three... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management
November Meeting.
Robin Hood's Bay, Yorkshire.—On the 2nd September a salvage party of six was marooned on the wreck of the Harvest Queen, owing to their boat breaking away and capsizing. Their plight was seen by a...
Category: Services
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To WALTER FAIRBAIN, on his retirement, after serving for 34J years as Coxswain of the Dunbar and Skateraw Life-boats, a Coxswain's Certificate of Service, and a Pension.
To WTLLIAM H. MARTIN, on his retirement, after...
Category: Awards
A Dredger and a Hopper
Workington, Cumberland. At 2.30 on the morning of the 29th November, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dredger and a hopper had broken from their moorings off Workington and were drifting ashore. The life-boat Man-...
Cromer, Gorleston and Scarborough Memorials
LORD TEMPLEWOOD, president of the Cromer branch of the Institution, un- veiled a tablet in the No. 1 life-boat- house at Cromer on the l()th of August, 1955, and formally opened a shelter in which a tablet is inscribed: "To honour the...
Category: Articles
Scottish Fisheries Museum Anstruther:
Scottish Fisheries Museum, Anstruther: at a ceremony on February 17 five plaques commemorating the Scottish lifeboatmen from Fraserburgh, Arbroath, Broughty Ferry and Longhope who have lost their lives at sea since the end of World War II... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs