LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lady Anna
SKIPPER PUT BACK ABOARD TRAWLER Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 10.20 on the morning of the 20th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Lady Anna was gradually drifting on to the shore at Saundersfoot with a...
Howard D.
TOW FOR RESERVE LIFE-BOAT Redcar, Yorkshire. At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 9th May, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the reserve life-boat Howard D., which was on passage from Bridlington to Boulmer, had engine...
Splendour
SICK MAN ABOARD Lerwick, Shetlands. Shortly after midnight on the 3Oth November, 1963, the coastguard informed the assistant honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Splendour, seventy-five miles eastby- north of Lerwick, had a sick...
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— On the night of the 7th April the life-boat coxswain brought from St. Martin's, in his own boat, a girl who was suffering from appendicitis, and her doctor.
It was then decided that the girl must be sent to the...
Blairbeg
On the morning of the 21st June the Portpatrick coast- guard telephoned that a ship was ashore one mile north of Sanda Sound.
A strong S.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a heavy swell. The motor life- boat Lily Glen—Glasgow...
Ruby
On the night of the 9th September anxiety was felt for the local motor fishing boat Ruby, which had put out at 1 A.M., with one man on board, and had not returned.
The motor life-boat Mary Scott was launched at 11.27 P.M....
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain John Strachan, of Peterhead. He has been coxswain since 1922, and during those fourteen years the Peterhead life- boat has rescued 104 lives. Coxswain Strachan was awarded the silver medal of the...
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The Airliner Cloud of lona
St. Peter Port, Guernsey, and St.
Helier, Jersey.—31st July. The air liner Cloud of lona had been reported .overdue, and the motor life-boat Queen Victoria put out and searched all night without success. Shortly after noon...
IRB GIFT BY COMPANY
Every year the Abbey Life Assurance Co. Ltd. donates a certain sum of money to charity. About two years ago there was a mobile display by the R.N.L.I, outside St. Paul's Cathedral which was directly opposite Abbey Life...
Category: Donations
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A 15 year old youth ran up to a group of fishermen by the harbour at Dunbar, East Lothian, and told them that his brother had been washed off the rocks at the harbour entrance.
Coxswain Robert Brunton, who was present with...