LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
International Lifeboat Conference By Patrick Howarth
THE NETHERLANDS, APRIL 22-26 MORE NATIONS were represented at the thirteenth International Lifeboat Conference, which was held in the Netherlands from April 22 to 26, than ever before at one of these occasions. In the early days the...
Category: Meetings
A Village Bazaar
£83 from a Population of 558.A LIFE-BOAT worker who lives in the village of Shuttleworth, near Ramsbottom, in Lancashire, held a Life-boat Bazaar on 8th May. Her party consisted of herself, her two daughters and five working girls. The...
Category: Donations
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To THOMAS TALLON, on his retirement, after serving for 4 years as coxswain, 11J years as second coxswain, and previously 18J years as bowman of the Clogher Head life- boat, a coxswain's certificate of service, and a gratuity in lieu of a...
Category: Awards
Dark Night
On the morning of the 18th September the coxswain saw the fishing boat Dark Night, of Barrow, run ashore on the south end of Foulney Island. She was kept under observation and as she appeared to be in danger of foundering, the motor...
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Aith, Shetland. — At 12.30 A.M. on Christmas Day, 1937, a doctor telephoned that he had been asked to go tothe outlying island of Foula, as the inhabitants were in the grip of an epidemic of influenza, one person being critically ill, and...
H.M. Trawler Kingston Cairngorm
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT BEMBRIDGE JANUARY 29TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT During the afternoon an easterly blizzard was raging at Bembridge in the Isle of Wight.
The wind had been blowing hard for several days and a very...
Gay Nixie
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 6.45 on the morning of the 12th of July, 1957, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that H.M.S. Urania had reported a yacht in need of help a mile and a half north- east of Weymouth harbour. The life- boat William and...
Ryal
MARCH 26TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 7.17 A.M. a message was received from the Gorleston coastguard that distress signals were being made by a vessel off Caister. A fresh N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea, At...
Fishing Boats
On the morning of the 17th January, between 4 A.M. and 7 A.M., the fishing fleet of Gourdon put to sea. At 8 A.M.
there were signs of an approaching gale, and some of the smaller boats returned to harbour. By noon a...
Fiona
St. Helier, Jersey.—At six o'clock on the evening of the 28th of April, 1953, the harbourmaster rang up to say that the owner of the local fishing boat Fiona had reported that the boat was overdue with a crew of two, and that he felt...