LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Memories of International Conferences By Patrick Howarth
The first international lifeboat conference was held in London in 1924, the centenary year of the RNLI; the first international lifeboat exhibition is being held at Plymouth this summer to celebrate our 150th...
Category: Articles
Castle Moil
Cromarty.—At 10.0 on the morning of the 12th of February, 1951, the coast- guard telephoned that a fishing boat was aground on the West Riff Sand- bank near Rosemarkie. At 10.17 the life-boat John Russell, on temporary duty at the station,...
A Dinghy and San Toy
Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 2.50 on the afternoon of the 4th of August, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat with an out- board motor had broken down off Penmon Point. At three o'clock the life-boat Field...
Lifeboat Services (Continued from Page 12)
(continued from page 12) accorded to Coxswain Ronald J. Hardy and Emergency Mechanic Phillip J.
Dorey. Vellum service certificates were presented to Second Coxswain/Motor Mechanic Victor A. C. Marsh, Assistant Mechanic Eric...
Category: Services
Helen N. MacAlister
St. Mary's, Stilly Islands. At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 26th of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor tug was burning flares between Annet Head and St. Mary's. The life-boat Guy and...
Virtuous, Just Reward, Good Way, Golden Gleam and Mary Jane
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 9.20 on the morning of the 27th of October, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a number of Fraserburgh fishing boats had been caught in a violent northerly gale off Rattray Head. At 9.32...
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...
Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
THE annual meeting of the committee of this fund, of which H.R.H. the DUKE OF EDINBURGH is patron, was held on the 11th January last at the General Post Office, W. H. HAINES, Esq., 1 of the House of Lords, occupying the...
Category: Meetings
Pearl
— Shortly after 1 A.M. on 31st March a rocket and a flare were seen near Kettleness Point during a break in a thick fog. This was reported to the Coxswain of the Life-boat Hester BothscMld,vrho ordered the launch of the boat. She proceeded...
South African
FORMBY AND NEW BRIGHTON. The barque South African, of Belfast, bound from Eio Grande for the Mersey with a cargo of bone ash, stranded on Taylor's Bank in a strong W. wind with a heavy sea on the llth April. On the vessel being observed...