LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Civil Service Life-Boats
Inaugural Ceremonies at Donaghadee (Co. Down) and Whitehills (Banffshire).
DURING the present year the Inaugural Ceremonies have taken place of two new Motor Life-boats which are gifts to the Institution from the Civil...
Category: Inaugurations
Busiest Day In the History of the Life-Boat Service
BETWEEN the late evening of Saturday, the 28th of July, and Sunday, the 29th of July, the Life-boat Service ex- perienced the busiest day in its entire history.
During most of the month of July the weather had been bad and...
Category: Services
Two Men Washed Out of Life-Boat
Two members of the Teesmouth crew had a remarkable escape when they were washed out of the life-boat after she had gone to the help of an Indian steamer on I4th March, 1964.
At 9.40 that morning the honorary secretary of...
Category: Services
Fourteen Rescued from German Ship
AT 6.15 on the morning of the 27th of October, 1959, the honorary secretary of the Mallaig, Inverness-shire, life- boat station, Mr. R. Watt, was told by the coastguard that a German ship was ashore on the island of Rhum fourteen miles away....
Category: Services
The Royal Bank of Scotland
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Category: Advertisement
The Folio Society
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Category: Advertisement
Man the Life-Boat. (From the New York Sailors' Magazine and Seamen's Friend)
IB it worth while to work for others ? Is it worth something to save life ? As the day broke, one fearfully stormy morning, a large barque ran on a bank of sand, eight miles from the British coast, and lay there at the mercy of the tempest,...
Category: Articles
A Yacht and a Sailing Dinghy
LAUNCH TO CAPSIZED DINGHY Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland.
At 10.30 on the morning of the 12th August, 1962, the honorary secretary noticed a yacht and a sailing dinghy being blown to the north of the harbour in Berwick...
Alert
TOW FOR FISHING BOAT WITH ENGINE BREAKDOWN Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland.
At 3.25 on the afternoon of the 22nd April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing boat had fired a red flare a...
Taia and Standig
Dover, Kent. At 8.5 p.m. on nth November, 1965, a yacht in Dover harbour was reported to be in danger of capsizing against a Trinity House pilot cutter which had it in tow. The life-boat Southern Africa left her moorings at 8.18 in an...