LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Providence
SEPTEMBER 30TH. - MARGATE KENT.
At 5.35 P.M. information was received from the naval authorities that a fishing boat was in distress three miles west of Margate pier, and the motor life-boat The Lord Southborough (Civil...
Scotmid smashes £150K target
Scotmid Co-operative has raised £200,000 for the RNLI in a year, smashing its target of £150,000.
Staff and customers at the co-operative’s Scotmid and Semichem stores and offices in Scotland, Northern Ireland...
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Dr. Leonard Gow, LL.D., D.L., Glasgow
No one has given more notable, generous and successful help to the life-boat service in Scotland than Dr.
Leonard Gow, LL.D., D.L., of Glasgow, who died on llth March, at the age of seventy-seven. Dr. Gow was the hon- orary...
Category: Obituaries
Helen M.
On a lee shore INFORMATION from Ministry of Defence Police that a catamaran, Helen M, was anchored in a dangerous position off Pendine was received by Tenby Coastguard at 2110 on Wednesday October 7, 1981. Two of the catamaran's crew...
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Snow IN THE SEVERE SNOW STORMS last January lifeboatmen from several stations in Wales played an important part in helping to get medical supplies and food through to villages which were cut off by deep snow drifts and impassable roads and...
Catherine and Ann
Filey, Yorkshire.—At noon on the 3rd of February, 1955, the coxswain re- ported that the local fishing coble Catherine and Ann was at sea. The weather was becoming worse, and at 12.15 the life-boat The Isa & Pennjn Milsted was launched...
A Dinghy (1)
The Lizard—Cadgwith, Cornwall - At 1.47 p.m. on 16th April, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a skin diver was in difficulties off the Lizard outer rocks and was drifting away from his dinghy.
The...
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Newquay, Cornwall. At 10.35 p.m.
on 4th July, 1965, the honorary secretary was told that one of two men being pursued by the police had run into the sea at Crantock and was swimming towards West Pentere. At 10.40 the IRB...
James Lay
JANUARY 1 4TH. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.
About 10.30 at night the Saltburn coastguard reported a message from the police at Marske that a vessel was ashore here. A light westerly wind was blowing and the sea was smooth. The...
The Use of Oil to Reduce Breaking Seas
IN 1914 supplies of oil were issued to eight Stations with a view to finding out the best way of using it to reduce breaking seas, and in 1920, as a result of these experiments, all Stations were supplied with canvas bags, pierced with holes...
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