LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Naming Ceremony at Gourdon
THE naming ceremony of the motor life-boat for Gourdon, Kin- cardineshire, took place on 23rd May.
The life-boat is a Scottish gift, for it has been built out of a legacy from the late Mrs. Margaret H. Dawson, of Bridge of...
Category: Inaugurations
Unity
— The motor life-boat J. and W. put out at 10.40 A.M. on the 12th March, in a moderate N.E. gale, with a heavy sea, to search for the motor fishing boat Unity, which had been reported to be in distress with an engine breakdown about seven...
Ardgowan
At 3.30A.M.
a messenger arrived at Huna and re- ported that a vessel was ashore and burning flares in the direction of Duncansby Head. There was a strong E.S.E. wind blowing with a rough sea and the weather was cold and wet...
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 3.32 p.m.
on 25th February, 1966, the Caldy island steward informed the honorary secretary that the sea was too rough for the normal ferry service to take an injured boy to the mainland and...
A lucky escape
The new RNLI lifeguard service at Skegness, Lincolnshire, unexpectedly joined forces with the local lifeboat crew when a swimmer was at risk of drowning.
On Monday 20 July, at 5.45pm, Lifeguard Ross Noble was preparing to...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat People
Birthday and New Year's Honours QBE Horace Kemball Greaves, secretary, Manchester Savings Committee. After the loss of the Mumbles lifeboat in 1947 Mr Greaves, then town treasurer of Swansea and honorary secretary of the Swansea branch,...
Category: Articles
Two Cobles
NEWBIGGIN BY THE SEA.—Two cobles were in danger, a sudden gale from S.E.
having sprung np while they were working their lines, about two or three miles from the shore, on the morning of the 12th January, and the sea...
Fishing Boats
At about 2 P.M. on the 4th March it was necessary to launch the Life-boat Tlieo- philus Sidney Echalaz for the protection of some of the fishermen in haddock and small crab boats, which were overtaken by a very heavy sea. To approach the |...
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Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At 9.30 on the night of the 15th of January, 1955, the County Clerk for Sutherland informed the life-boat station that the roads to Skerray and Melvich were blocked by snow and that about a hundred people were...
Fishing Boats
Cromer, Norfolk.—On the morning of the 6th of February, 1950, after the local boats had left for the fishing grounds sixteen miles south-east of Cromer, there were indications of a north-easterly gale approaching. It was decided, therefore,...