LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Coxswain'* Certificate of Service.

The COXSWAIN'S CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE, PENSION, and a SPECIAL GRATUITY of £80, have been awarded to: JOHN- STRACHAN, 15 years coxswain of the Peterhead life-boat.

A 'heady' tradition was upheld in double measure at Aberdeen in May when the maiden catch of the Shetland seine-net boat Evening Star was auctioned.

Traditionally, the buyer of the first box offish from a maiden...

Swimmers rescued MABLETHORPE iLB deputy launching authority was informed by a council lifeguard at 1458 on August 6, 1975, that there were two swimmers in difficulties off the 'pipe tunnel', an outfall pipe protected by a groyne,...

AT 2350 ON JUNE 8, 1974, Edwin B.

Brown, an ILB crew member at New Brighton, Merseyside, was told that a fishing boat appeared to be aground on a lee shore in Rock Channel. He telephoned the honorary secretary immediately,...

60 years ago From The Life-Boat of 1935 Usually this column illustrates how much the world of lifeboats has changed. Occasionally, however, in the pages of a slightly yellowing journal are words which stand out as being as true today as the...

South Eastern Division Twenty rescued CAPE COAST, a 2,650 ton Panamanian cargo vessel, broadcast on Channel 16 VHP at 0327 on Wednesday January 10 that she was in distress and taking water in her engine room; she was 2.2 miles from Nab Tower...

AT 11.10 p.m. on the night of Saturday I4th September, 1963, Mr. R. Watt, the honorary secretary of the Mallaig life-boat station, learnt from the police that a number of people were trapped on a cliff in Loch Duich. A quarter of an hour...

SIR GODFREY BARING, who retired from the Committee of Management in 1956 after having served on the Committee for forty-five years and having been the Committee's Chairman for thirty-three years, died on the 24th of November, 1957. Sir...