LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Professor Edgar A. Pask
The late Professor Edgar A. Pask, O.B.E., M.D., M.A., M.B., B.Chir., D.A., F.F.A.R.C.S., who was a member of the Committee of Management of the Institution, was honoured at an informal ceremony in November in the presence of the Duke and...
Category: Awards
Rowing Boats
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire - At 3.5 p.m. on loth September, 1966, the life-boat Rachel and Mary Evans was launched in a gentle north westerly wind and a choppy sea to escort a number of rowing boats in a race organized by the Barry Rowing...
Dedication
A remarkable demonstration of service has come to the notice of the R.N.L.I, at Douglas, Isle of Man. The devoted helper, who was physically handicapped, was 15-year old David Kelly who died in November.
It is understood...
Category: Articles
A Boat (3)
JULY 13TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX. At 4.8 P.M. the coastguard reported a waterlogged boat about a mile S.W. of the coastguard station. The sea was slight with moderate S.W wind blowing. At 4.28 P.M.
the motor life-boat Cyril...
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....
None (1)
ILB Dash TWO TEENAGE girls brought word to Rhossili Coastguard Station, at 6 p.m.
on July 2, 1973, that four of their friends were stranded on Worms Head.
A member of the Coastguard drove straight to the...
Two Fishing Boats (1)
OCTOBER 11TH - 12TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE, AND LYTHAM-ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. On the night of the 11th the New Brighton No. 1 motor life-boat was launched, in very bad weather, to search for two overdue fishing boats. She could not find...
Five Fishing Boats and Bairn's Pride
SIX FISHING BOATS ESCORTED Arbroath, Angus. On Friday the 30th August, 1963, at 8.45 a.m. the coastguard telephoned the honorary secretary to say that five fishing boats had gone to sea early that morning and were now returning to harbour....
John Briscoe
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.—At 4.35 on the afternoon of the 31st of May, 1957, the coastguard telephoned to say a motor fishing vessel was on the rocks at Divas Head. The life-saving ap- paratus team and a helicopter had been summoned, and at...
Dominance
Arbroath, Angus. At six o'clock on the evening of the 9th December, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was ashore half a mile east of Arbroath. The life-boat The Duke of Montrose was launched at 6.11 in...