LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lochgoil Argyll
No one was left in any doubt over which charity was being supported by this particular raft. The race was held at Lochgoil, Argyll, and at the helm of the raft is Dr J. R. R. Holms, chairman of the recently formed Lochgoil branch. By showing... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Bully for Kirkwall! Kirkwall Scotland North Division RNLI lorry driver George Dadson became part of an unusual lifeboat crew at Kirkwall in the middle of October.
George had arrived at the station with his 17-ton truck to...
Committee Cheque
Committee cheque In September members of the Pembrokeshire 175 Anniversary committee visited Cardigan lifeboat station to admire the new Atlantic 75 lifeboat Tanni Grey and to present a cheque for £7,000, part of the final balance of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Musical Support
Musical support In November, the Forth Dimension Musical Society put on five performances of Fiddler on the Roof at South Queensferry High School in Lothian - helping to raise £180 for Queensferry lifeboat. The society put on a... - View image in PDF
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New birth for Oban lifeboat!Oban's new Trent had been on service for less than three weeks when her services were first officially recognised - by the naming of a baby!baby! The Trent, Mora Edith Macdonald, received her 'award'...
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MAY 1 3TH. - ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE.
The body of an airman had been seen floating in the sea and at 4.25 in the afternoon the motor life-boat Annie Ronald and Isabella Forrest was launched. A moderate E.N.E. wind was...
Fraserburgh
FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE On the 8th February, 1940, the Fraserburgh life-boat rescued the crew of five of the Baradrangur, of Trangisvaag.
COXSWAIN DAVID HAY was awarded the bronze medal.
CAPTAIN ANDREW...
Category: Medals
Wittezee
NOVEMBER 12TH. - THE MUMBLES GLAMORGANSHIRE. The Dutch motor vessel Wittezee, of Rotterdarn, stranded below Port Eynon Point. The life-boat went out at 9 A.M., three-quarters of an hour after she had returned from the service of the day...
Bar
APRIL 17TH. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX, AND WALMER, KENT. The French trawler Bar had gone ashore near Beachy Head, but she refloated without help, and the Newhaven life-boat returned to her station. The trawler had been reported to Walmer as ashore...
Practice makes perfect
A routine exercise on 10 June between The Lizard lifeboat and a naval helicopter became the real thing the following day.
Both were called to the aid of the fishing vessel Harvester, which had reported an engine room fire...
Category: Articles