LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ben Bheula
Islay, Inner Hebrides.—At 12.30 in the morning of the 16th of March, 1949, the Kilchoman coastguard reported a message from McArthur's Head Lightr house that a vessel was flashing S.O.S.
signals one mile from the...
Dineiddwg
Aberdeen. At 11.50 p.m. on 2nd April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Dineiddwg of Aberdeen had grounded at Girdleness in thick fog. The life-boat Ramsay-Dyce proceeded at 12.20 a.m. in a light...
A Silver-Medal Service at Aberdeen
THE Institution has awarded to Coxswain Thomas Sinclair, of Aberdeen, a second-service clasp to the silver medal which he already holds, and special awards to the crew, for the rescue on 5th November last of two men of the crew of eight of...
Category: Medals
Ransel
On the 16th September the Dutch motor vessel Ransel, of Delfzyl, bound, laden, from Ayr to Teignmouth, came to anchor in Courtown Bay, and five of the crew, with the master's wife and her sister, went ashore for provisions. The master,...
A Cabin Cruiser
At 4.30 p.m. on 2ist August, 1966, it was noticed that a cabin cruiser was broaching to in broken water on the North Tail. The life-boat Louisa Anne Hawker proceeded at 4.45 in a moderate westerly breeze and a choppy sea. It was low water. A...
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BABY BORN IN LIFE-BOAT HOUSE Galway Bay, Co. Galway. At eleven o'clock on Saturday the 3rd of August, 1963, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat could be used to take an expectant mother to the Galway Regional...
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Corgi
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Boston Wasp
Filey, Yorkshire - At 7.20 p.m. on I yth September, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Boston Wasp, which was fifty miles off Filey had a badly injured man on board who required immediate medical attention....
Eliza, Tom and Hereford
BURNHAM.—The ketch Eliza, of Ljdney, was sailing up the river on the 2nd October, when owing to the state of the weather—a moderate gale blowing from the W.N.W. with strong gusts of wind and a heavy sea—her master considered safer to anchor....