LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Rowing Boat
RABBIT-CATCHERS MAROONED Thurso, Caithness-shire.—Shortly after seven in the evening of the 22nd of December, 1947, information was received from Melness, Sutherlandshire, thirty-five miles to the eastwards, that two men were marooned on the...
Argo
CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE.—The barque Argo, of Fredrikstad, was totally wrecked near Macharioch on the 27th February, but happily nine of her crew were saved. The crew of the Life-boat at Southend were assembled, but as it was very doubtful...
Janbyrd & Magna Charta
After dark on the 1st of November, the Life-boat George Gay, in answer to signals of distress observed from Penarth, proceeded to the roadstead, where she found two vessels in collision; a strong breeze from the S.W. was blowing at the time,...
The S.S. Zor
On the 18th-19th of May, 1955, the Wells and Sheringham life-boats be- tween them rescued nine men from the S.S. Zor. For a full account of these services, for which the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum were accorded to Coxswain...
The S.S. Zor (1)
On the 18th-19th of May, 1955, the Wells and Sheringham life-boats be- tween them rescued nine men from the S.S. Zor. For a full account of these services, for which the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum were accorded to Coxswain...
Coastguard Shield
Mr. Anthony Grant, Parliamentary Undersecretary of State, Department of Trade and Industry, presented the Coastguard Shield for the most meritorious wreck service of 1970/71 to the Peterhead C.R.C. in July. The award was made for the rescue...
Category: Awards
Lady Karem
Newhaven, Sussex. At 12.40, early on the morning of the 25th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the hon- orary secretary that a vessel was firing red flares a quarter of a mile off Birling Gap. The life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at...
A Sailing Dinghy
MAN WAS MISSING Torbay, South Devon. At 3.8 p.m.
on ist October, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small sailing dinghy had capsized off Livermead Beach. A further message was received that two men had...
Cecilia
The sprit-sail barge Cecilia, of London, whilst bound from Orford Haven to Grimsby, with a cargo of shingle, had her sails blown away when off Saltfleet on the 8th April. Signals of distress were hoisted, and the Life-boat John Bowson...
Metal Collecting Boxes: An Appeal
IT is impossible at present to get more of the small metal life-boat collecting boxes. Nor will it be possible to get them for a long time. Meanwhile the Institution has none. If any branches have boxes which they are not using, will they...
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