LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sir Johnstone Wallace, K.B.E., D.L., J.P.
Sir Johnstone Wallace, K.B.E., D.L., J.P.
By the death of Sir Johnstone Wallace, K.B.E., D.L., J.P., of Newcastle, on 9th November last, the Institution has lost an old and valued supporter. For many years he was closely...
Category: Obituaries
Nigel Dixon: 'We Give Thanks for His Life'
IT WAS WITH GREAT SORROW that the people of the Royal National Life-boat Institution heard that their Director, Captain Nigel Dixon had died suddenly in Poole Hospital on Sunday December 3 after a short illness. Captain Dixon had been...
Category: Obituaries
Harbours of Refuge
The important question of providing harbours of refuge on exposed parts of the coast, where natural harbours are not to be found, to which merchant vessels and fishing-boats could ran for safety in gales of wind, has once more cropped up,...
Category: Articles
Aberlemno
ILFRACOMBE.—On the 2nd April the Life-boat Co-Operator No. 2 was called out in squally weather to the assistance of the barque Aberlemno, of Swansea, coal laden from Barry, which had stranded on a point called Egg Bock, W. of Combmartin, in...
Ann Mitchell
On the 30th January, 1860, the ship Ann Mitchell ran ashore on the Arklow bank. The Arklow life-boat proceeded to her, and found the Bristol steamer Suly lying near her, but unable to approach sufficiently near to take off her crew, the sea...
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APPENDICITIS Galway Bay. At 6.0 p.m. on 3rd January, 1965, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that he had a patient with appendicitis requiring hospital treatment and had failed to obtain a boat for the journey to the...
War Honours
IT is with great satisfaction that we record the fact that two old employees of the Institution have received distinction for good work in the field.
LIEUTENANT H. G. SPARY, who was a clerk in the Midland District Office,...
Category: Awards
Stella Arcturus
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 3.54 on the afternoon of the 8th of December, 1954, the Spurn Point coastguard telephoned that the trawler Stella Arcturus, of Hull, had reported that she had gone ashore on the Binks and needed a tug. At 4.5 the...
Fiancee
During a strong easterly gale on the llth Decem- ber the French schooner La Fiancee, of Paimpol, came into Campbeltown Harbour for shelter. She let go her anchors, but owing to the strength of the gale the anchors dragged, and the vessel...
Ard Adimh
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. At 8.50 p.m. on i6th February, 1966, the coastguard reported to the coxswain that the trawler Ard Adimh was adrift in Dun Laoghaire harbour and in danger of breaking up on the rocks by the west pier. As the...