LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Boats (2)
Bridlington, Yorkshire. On the 12th of May, 1960, nine local motor fishing boats put to sea at four o'clock in the morning to enable the fishermen to attend to their crab pots. A fresh easter- ly wind was blowing, and during the morning...
Bervor
Troon, Ayrshire.-—At 7.50 in the evening, on the 25th of September, 1950, a message was received from Irvine that a yacht had broken down off Irvine harbour and could not get in. So, at 8.15, the life-boat Sir David Richmond, of Glasgozv,...
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FOOD TO MAROONED SHEPHERDS Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At 12.30 in the afternoon of the 28th of April, 1947, word was received from the relatives of two shepherds, marooned on Mingalay Island by the bad weather, that the men's food...
Hazel
Cloughey, Co. Down.—At 3.55 on the afternoon of the 14th of August, 1957, the coxswain of the life-boat reported that a small yacht was burning flares off North Rock. At 4.15 the life-boat Constance Calverley was...
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BOY TRAPPED ON A CLIFF Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire.—At 9.5 in the evening of February 22nd, 1947, the police telephoned" that a boy was stranded on the cliff-face north of Aberystwyth and that the National Fire Service had failed to find...
Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
AT the annual meeting of the Committee of this Fund, held on the 17th of January, and presided over by Mr. "W. H. HAINES, Chief Clerk of the House of Lords, Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the Honorary Secretary, reported that the number of...
Category: Meetings
Mr. John Miller, M.B.E.
MR. JOHN MILLER, the honorary secretary of the Thurso station, was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the Birthday Honours List, 1948. Mr. Miller became honorary secretary in March, 1914, and retired in May, 1948, after...
Category: Articles
Tijl Uilenspiegel
Six lifeboats in search for missing Belgian trawler The new Tyne class lifeboat at Douglas, Isle of Man, had a testing time during her first service, in a search for a missing Belgian trawler which lasted for 11 hours in Force 7 winds and...
Gypsy King
Walmer, Kent. At 10.30 on the morning of the 13th of January, 1958, the Deal coastguard told the coxswain that a motor boat had broken down with engine trouble a quarter of a mile south of South Brake buoy. The life- boat Charles Dibdin...
St. David's Life-Boat Alongside the World Concord
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Category: Photographs