LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Yla Section
A night rescue operation had its sequel at Portsmouth when the Commanding Officer of a Royal Naval frigate handed over a cheque for £100 to the Royal National Life-boat Institution. The Frigate, H.M.S. Naiad, was on her way to...
Category: Articles
Tungsha
Thurso, Caithness-shire - At 7.20 a.m.
on llth May, 1968, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Tungsha of Toiisberg was making for Thurso bay with a passanger who had suffered a heart attack. She...
A Fishing Boat (2)
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At 10.10 on the morning of the 4th of September, 1958, a message was re- ceived from Ballymacaw harbour that a fishing boat had broken down with engine trouble a quarter of a mile off shore. At 10.15 the life...
A Dinghy (5)
PorfhdinJlaen, Caernarvonshire. At 7.30 on the evening of the 23rd of September, 1958, a message was re- ceived from the coastguard that a small dinghy was in difficulties north-east of Porthdinllaen Point. The life-boat Charles Henry...
Skogaland
Barra Island, Hebrides. At 8.30 on the morning of the 4th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Skogaland of Gothenburg, which was 180 miles off Barra, had a sick seaman on board. It was decided to...
Sir Frederick Bowhill
Air Chief Marshal Sir Fredrick Bowhill, G.B.E., K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. and Bar, died on the 12th of March, 1960, at the age of 79. He had a most distinguished career lasting some fifty years in the Merchant Navy, the Royal Naval Air Service...
Category: Obituaries
Award to Two Coxswains
THE 1963 award made under the terms of the James Michael Bower Endow- ment Fund established by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company has been made to Coxswain Hubert Ernest Petit, of St. Peter Port, gold medallist, and...
Category: Awards
A Fishing Boat
NEAR ROSSALL At 11.22 a.m. on i2th May, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small fishing boat was in difficulties a few hundred yards off the beach at Rossall. The life-boat crew, already standing by in the boathouse...
A Dinghy
DINGHY ON ROCKS At 1.30 p.m. on i8th April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a rubber dinghy had capsized in Puffin Sound. The Life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts was launched at 1.34. There was a strong...
Dolphin (1)
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At eleven o'clock on the night of the 12th of June» 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of a report that the cabin cruiser Dolphin of Southend, on passage to Wallasea Bay was...