LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ex-Coxswain Douglas Kirkaldie
The death occurred in April this year of ex-Coxswain Douglas Kirkaldie who was from 1946 to 1952 in command of the Ramsgate, Kent, life-boat. He was 81. Mentioned in despatches for decoy work during the Dunkirk evacuation, Mr. Kirkaldie was...
Category: Donations
Sapphire
YOUGHAL.—The Chief Officer of Coastguard having reported that a steamer, bearing about fourteen miles E. of Youghal, appeared to be in distress, on the 28th March, the Life-boat Mary Luckombe was launched at noon and proceeded under sail to...
Albion
On the 11th November, at 3 A.M., signal rockets were fired from the Gull Lightship, and were answered by a rocket from Ramsgate pier-head. The Life-boat Bradford and steam-tug Aid were at once manned, left the harbour at 3.15, and proceeded...
Fishing Boats
On the morning of the 6th May the Bridlington honorary secretary telephoned for a life-boat to stand by the Bridlington fishing boats, as the weather was very bad and the Bridlington motor life- boat was off service for overhaul. A moderate...
People and Places
Since the last Annual Presentation of Awards Meeting, the Committee of Management has awarded 3 Honorary Life Governorships, 10 Bar to Gold Badges and 55 Gold Badges. Each of the following entries states the dates of the first and latest...
Category: Articles
None (1)
Trapped on cliff FOLLOWING A 999 CALL, HM Coastguard informed Coxswain Griffith Jones of Porthdinllaen lifeboat station at 2253 on Tuesday, August 31, 1976, that a boy was trapped under a rock at Porth-y- Nant. The coxswain informed his...
Two Dinghies (1)
TWO CAPSIZED DINGHIES TAKEN IN TOW Falmouth, Cornwall. At 10.56 on the morning of the 24th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy had capsized a mile and a half off Nare Head, near Portscatho, and nine...
Scottish Lifeboat Council Annual General Meeting
THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Scottish Lifeboat Council was held in The Freemason's Hall, Edinburgh, on May 23 this year. Captain Alexander Ramsay of Mar, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Council, was in the chair at the...
Category: Meetings
Canoes
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin - On 17th March, 1966, the life-boat Dunleary II was to undertake a special exercise in connection with the opening of the Irish Boat Show at which the Institution was represented. Before the life-boat left her...
A Sailing Dinghy
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 6.3 on the evening of the 7th of July, 1952, the Wallasey police telephoned that a sailing dinghy had capsized in the river Mersey off Egremont, and that two people were in the water. The life-boat Edmund and Mary...