LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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New Quay and Pwllheli’s all-weather lifeboats worked together to rescue the crew of the Galasma on 6 September. The yacht, with fi ve people onboard, was having trouble in a force 8 northerly wind. Rough seas meant she wasn’t making much...

XXXVIII.—WALMER.

Centurion, 36 feet long, 9 feet 4 inches beam, 12 oars.

TOWARDS the end of the year 1856 a Life-boat was placed on this station by the Institution, in aid of which the Royal Thames Yacht...

Bude, Port Isaac and Padstow, Cornwall; and Clovelly, North Devon - At 9.40 a.m. on 22nd August, 1969, the coastguard informed the Bude honorary secretary that distress flares from a large white boat had been seen two miles west of Lower...

Longhope, Orkneys, Wick, and Thurso, Caithness-shire.—Early on the morning of the 12th January the Finnish motor vessel Johanna Thorden strucka rock in the Pentland Firth. She had thirty-eight persons, including women and children, on board,...

Donaghadee, Co. Down. — On the afternoon of the 15th September the motor life-boat Civil Service No. 5 was returning to harbour after her quarterly exercise when a small rowing boat was seen near Foreland Point. Owing to cross currents this...

Anstruther, Fifeshire.—At 12.55 early on the morning of the 14th of Septem- ber, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that a yacht had fired rockets in Largo Bay. At 1.30 the life-boatJames and Ruby Jackson was launched.

The...

Miss E. M. Lloyd-Jones, whose home is in Auchterarder, Perthshire, has been appointed as the Institution's organising secretary for Scotland. She succeeds Mrs. Jan D. Paton, who has retired after thirteen years of distinguished service...