LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

LIFE-BOAT crews are generally such experienced boatmen that the necessity for drill is not apparent to them, and the quarterly exercise at some stations is apt to degenerate into a somewhat perfunctory proceeding which does not strike...

LLANDDWYN.—At daylight on the 5th October, the schooner George, of Liverpool, bound from Dublin for Port Dinorwic in ballast, was observed to show signal of distress whilst riding heavily at anchor in the bay during a fresh N.W.

Whitby, Yorkshire. — In the early afternoon of the 5th of October, 1949, seventeen geological students from Aberdeen University were cut off by the tide off Black Nab. Three of them scrambled through deep water and breakers for help, and...

Captain Graham C. Holloway, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., who died on 10th December, 1931, was appointed a Member of the Committee of Manage- ment in 1922. He brought to the work of the Institution considerable ex- perience in the Mercantile Marine,...

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Ramsgate, Kent.—At 7.47 on the even- ing of the 31st of January, 1954, the coastguard reported that a message had been received by the North Fore- land radio station that the S.S.

Antigone, of Antwerp, needed help ten miles...

BABY WENT TOO Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At 11.20 p.m. on ist August, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser which lay at anchor in Sand bay needed the life-boat's assistance.

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HRH The Duchess of Kent returns to harbour aboard Scarborough's new Mersey class Fanny Victoria Wilkinson and Frank Stubbs after the naming ceremony on 9 September.. - View image in PDF