LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Scottish Fishermen Return Rewards
Twenty Scottish fishermen from Argyllshire, Wigtownshire and Arran have returned as gifts to the Institution nearly £30 which they had received from it for going out to the help of crashed aeroplanes. Ten of the men had gone to the...
Category: Articles
Dunkirk Lifeboats Remembered
The Sir William Hillary to which Mr Hills refers below was the RNLI'sfirst 'fast' lifeboat. Designed largely for rapid response in the event of an aircraft crash, she was 64ft long and powered by two 375hp petrol engines giving a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Operation Lifeboat
ON MAY 8, 1975, at the RNLI annual meeting held in the Royal Festival Hall, London, a cheque for £91,363.72 was handed over by four young members of The Scout Association (see page 21) to cover funds raised for the lifeboat service...
Category: Donations
Canoes and Audrey
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. — At 10.40 on the morning of the 21st of July, 1957, the life-boat Rachel and Mary Evans was launched to stand by during the Bristol Channel canoe race between Weston-super-Mare and Barry. In the early afternoon...
Strathmartin
Lerwick, Shetlands.—Early in the evening of the 18th February it was learned that the steam trawler Strathmartin, of Aberdeen, was ashore on Loofa Baa shoal, in the harbour.
An E.S.E. gale was blowing with a very rough sea....
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Galway Bay. At 3.30 on the after- noon of the 13th of June, 1960, the local medical officer asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would go to Inishere Island and take a sick woman to Rossaveal on the mainland for hospital treatment....
Catherine
On the 14th March at 7.15 A.M. the motor Life-boat Sir FitzRoy Clayton was again called out to the assistance of the brigantine Catherine, of Folkestone, which ran ashore on the east bank at the harbour entrance, when coming into Newhaven...
The Tender of the Commissioners of Irish Lights Wanderer
Howth, Co. Dublin.—At 2.15 on the afternoon of the 9th of June. 1957, a message was received that the relief boat for Rockabill lighthouse had been damaged when she had struck a rock on St. Patrick's Island. Two small outboard motor...
Two slips in 6 hours
KYLE OF LOCHALSH | 13 SEPTEMBER
A canoeist endured a night alone in a cave by Loch Carron after slipping and injuring himself. In the morning he crawled out to get reception on his mobile and called...
Category: Articles
White Rose
Arbroath, and Broughty Ferry, Angus.
At eight o'clock on the morning of the 27th of August, 1959, the fishing boat White Rose of Arbroath, which had engine trouble, drifted on to rocks at West Haven, north of Carnoustie...