LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mrs. Longair, of Dundee
By the death on the 15th July of Mrs. Longair, wife of ex-Lord Provost Longair, of Dundee, in her 84th year, the Institution has lost one of its oldest and most valued workers in Scotland.
Her interest in the Life-boat...
Category: Obituaries
Charter
Just after 6 P.M. on the 7th January the coast- guard telephoned that a vessel had stranded about half a mile west of Sewer Mill Cove. The motor life-boat Alfred and Clara Heath found the steam trawler Charter, of Lowestoft, fast aground....
Primula
FISHING BOAT OVERDUE Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At 12.48 in the afternoon of the 21st of June, 1947, the Wick coastguard reported that the motor fishing vessel Primula, of Wiek, last seen on the night of the 18th off Sandside Head, had been...
Brandeburg
On the evening of the 15th December the German consul reported that the skipper of the German trawler Brandenburg, of Weser- munde, which had just anchored in the harbour, was seriously ill. A whole S.S.E. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea,...
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St. Mary's, Ides of Scilly.—On the night of the 24th February two doctors, who are members of the local committee, told the honorary secretary that they had examined a serious appendicitis case, and had decided that the man must be got...
Whitelink Bay and Gamrie Bay
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—On the morning of the 24th June the coastguard at Kinnaird Head telephoned that two vessels were ashore near Cairnbulg. They were the steam drifters Whitelink Bay, of Fraserburgh, and Gamrie Bay, of Banff, which...
Jean Edmonds
Lerwick, Shetland.—At 10.45 A.M. on the 22nd February, 1939, a message was received from a trawler agent and the coastguard that the trawler Jean Edmonds, of Aberdeen, had broken down with boiler trouble, and had asked for the life-boat. The...
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LAUNCHERS' ORDEAL Hastings, Sussex. — At 5.32 in the evening of February 20th, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that the Bexhill police had reported flares about five miles south of Bexhill. An easterly breeze was blowing with a...
A Silver-Medal Service at New Brighton
THE Institution has awarded its silver medal to Coxswain W. H. Jones, of New Brighton; second-service clasps to the bronze medals they already hold to Second Coxswain J. Nicholson and Motor Mechanic W. Garbutt; its bronze medal to Second...
Category: Medals
Launch Out
The motor fishing boat Launch Out left harbour on the morning of the 10th April to haul lines. The weather was bad, and as it gradually got worse, with very heavy seas off the pier, the coxswain decided to launch the motor life-boat...