LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

BY the death of Mr. William Cole, of Ilfracombe, at the age of seventy-five, in April of this year, the Institution lost a warm friend and worker and one of its oldest Honorary Secretaries. He was appointed in 1890 and held the position...

V_X)HtCIltS Notes of the Quarter 290 Lifeboat Services 292 Volume XLVIII Number 486 Lifeboat Services, June and July 1983 299 Talking with Dr Sydney Peace of Orkney, by Joan Davies 300 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOLL 15ft 6in D class inflatable...

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FISHING VESSEL AGROUND IN NEAR GALE Stronsay, Orkneys. At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 7th December, 1962, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that he had been advised by the harbour master that the motor fishing vessel Ben More of...

As she was coming in the smack struck the breakwater and immediately sank. One of the three men on board can be seen on the bows preparing to swim for the breakwater where he was rescued by lines. The other two took to the rigging..View image in PDF

NO PETROL Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 2.40 p.m. on 26th July, 1965, the owner of a small dinghy informed the motor mechanic that two small boys had borrowed the boat and were long overdue. The maroons were fired and the life-boat...

Teesmouth, Yorkshire - At 10.40 p.m. on 7th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor launch Vim, which had left the Tees at 3 p.m. to take stores to the tankerPrimbro anchored in Tees bay, had neither...

To WILLIAM J. BAKER, on his retirement, after serving for 25J years as coxswain of the Padstow life-boat, a coxswain's certificate •of service and an annuity.

To JAMES TAIT, on his retirement, after serving for 15f...