LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Word to Our Well-Wishers
It must be obvious to any one who reflects on the subject for a moment, that the low price of 1 1/2d. at which this Journal is sup- plied, for the express purpose of bringing it within the reach of fishermen and boatmen, cannot cover the...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Maharatta
The s.s. Mahratta, of Liverpool, a large steamer of 5,698 tons register, stranded on the Goodwin Sands on the 9th April, whilst bound from Calcutta to London with passengers and cargo. The weather was fine at the time. In response to signals...
Feature: a Day to Remember
It was a memorable moment on a truly proud day for the Institution that saw Her Majesty The Queen, the RNLI's patron, declare the College officially open. Volunteers, supporters, staff and locals turned out in their hundreds to get a...
Category: Articles
Coxswain Alexander Gall
The Institution also deeply regrets the death of five other former cox- swains :— COXSWAIN SUPERINTENDENT WILLIAM ANDERSON, of the Humber.
COXSWAIN WILLIAM DYKE, of Swanage.
COXSWAIN ALEXANDER ...
Category: Obituaries
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Category: Advertisement
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THE forty-first anniversary of this ad- mirable society was held at the City Terminus Hotel, Cannon Street, on the 27th May, under the presidency of Admiral Sir ALEXANDER MILNE, G.C.B., Vice- President.
Amongst those...
Category: Meetings
Lifeboat People
In support of the City of Edinburgh lifeboat appeal to fund a 47ft Tyne class lifeboat for Fraserburgh, The Lord and Lady Provost of Edinburgh visited Fraserburgh on April 13 and were taken afloat in the station's present lifeboat, the...
Category: Articles
The Admirality Mine Sweeper No. 48
At 9 A.M. on the 29th December, when the Life-boat Queensbury was moored in the Harbour after returning from the s.s. Gallier at 4 A.M. that morning, a naval officer requested to be placed on board the Admiralty Mine-sweeper No. 48. As a...
The South Rock Lightvessel
SICK MAN BROUGHT ASHORE Cloughey, Co. Down.—At 1.30 in the afternoon of January 4th, 1947, the South Rock Light-vessel was seen to be firing distress signals. A light north-easterly breeze was blowing and the sea was moderate. The motor life...
Mr. J. G. Oldfield, of Whitehaven
Mr. J. G. Oldfield, of Whitehaven, Cumberland, who died in May, was the Honorary Secretary of the Whitehaven Station from 1890 to 1925, when it was closed. Since then he has been the Honorary Treasurer of the Financial Branch. In...
Category: Obituaries