LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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ANOTHER SNOW-BOUND TOWN HELPED Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—On the 14th of March, 1947, when the Portpatrick district was snowbound and food was short, the motor life-boat Jeanie Spiers went to Stranraer to fetch bread and other provisions....
Coins of All Countries
OUR life-boats can claim to be an inter- national service, not only because they have saved lives and vessels belonging to every country with a seaboard, but because the coins of all countries find their way into the life-boat collecting...
Category: Donations
Ella (1)
Gourdon, Kincardineshire ; Arbroath and Montrose, Angus.—At 12.20 in the morning of the 8th of July, 1948, the Gourdon coastguard reported to Gour- don life-boat station that the rowing boat Ella, with a crew of three, was expected, but had...
Handsome
Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At 1.20 in the afternoon of the 5th of May, 1949, the Wick coastguard telephoned that a drifter was in difficulties off Sandside.
The life-boat H.C.J. was launched twenty minutes later. A moderate...
A Small Boat
Longhope, Orkneys.—At three o'clock in the morning of the 1st of July, 1949, a message was received by telephone that a man, who had put out from Saltness in a small boat the previous evening to attend to his lobster creels, had not...
Mr. J. M. Mawso, J.P., of Barrow
By the death of Mr. J. M. Mawson, J.P., of Barrow-in-Furness, on 20th November, at the age of seventy-five, the Institution has lost one of the oldest of its honorary secretaries of life-boat stations. He was appointed honorary secretary in...
Category: Obituaries
Gleaner, of Penzance
Penlee, Cornwall.—On the night of the 19th June a message was received that a boat was ashore near Carn Dhu, Lamorna Bay. There was no wind and the sea was smooth, but there was a very thick fog. The motor life-boat W. and S. was launched at...
A Lady's Line-Throwing Guns
THE Institution recently received from a lady in Hampstead, London, a gift of £40, which is to provide the line- throwing apparatus and searchlight in the motor life-boat now being built for Boulmer, Northumberland. Since 1923 the same...
Category: Donations
Zaire
Poole and Bournemouth, Dorset.—At about 10.30 P.M. on the 1st June, 1938, the Parkstone police reported distress signals in Poole Harbour. A W.S.W.
gale was blowing, with a rough sea and squalls of rain. The pulling and...
James Bryce Allan
Mr. James Bryce Allan, who had been a member of the Committee of Management since 1930, died on the 12th of May, 1960. He had served on the Construction and General Purposes Committees of the Institution.
Mr. Allan was a...
Category: Obituaries