LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
IRB LAUNCHES
The following additional IRB services took place in April, July and August, 1969: No. 2 Life-boat Area Largs, Ayrshire - At 2.25 p.m. on llth August, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a rowing dinghy, with one crewman,...
Category: Services
Young John
Appledore, Devon. About seven o'clock on the evening of the 21st of June, 1958, a message was received from Ilfracombe radio station that the traw- ler Young John of St. Ives had engine trouble near the Fairway bell buoy in Barnstable...
Celebrations at Portree
Mrs Douglas-Home names the lifeboat with Portree acting honorary secretary, John Cameron and divisional inspector of lifeboats Scotland, Guy Platten, looking on.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Baby on board Kerrie Hazel MacGillivray had an unusual start in life on 13 August, when she was born on board the Oban lifeboat. The Ralph and Bonella Farrant was called to the Isle of Mull to take mother Fiona to Oban hospital but Kerrie...
John Roberts
John Roberts, coxswain of Sennen Cove lifeboatlifeboat from 1948 until his retirement in 1959. He joined the crew in 1910 on the pulling and sailing lifeboat Ann Newhon. becoming second coxswain in 1944..
Category: Obituaries
Lifeboat People
In the New Year Honours List, the BEM was awarded to Frank Moore, motor mechanic of Barrow lifeboat since 1954. He was assistant motor mechanic at Barrow from 1937 to 1953.
* * * It is with deep regret that we announce the...
Category: Articles
Ramleigh
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At about three in the morning of the 30th May, 1938, the local fishing coble Ramleigh put off to haul crab pots about six miles south of Whitby. One of her crew of three was coxswain of the motor life-boat Mary Ann...
H.M.S. Opossum and Gipsy Maid
HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.—About midnight on the 24th March IT. M.S. Opossum, while lying in the harbour at Holyhead, dragged her anchor and collided with the schooner Gipsy Maid. As she fired a rocket and showed signals of distress, the steam Life...
Sea Scout
MASTER SERIOUSLY ILL Eyemouth, Berwickshire. At 10.50 a.m. on igth March, 1965, the honorary secretary was informed that the master of the motor fishing vessel Sea Scout was seriously ill and the Sea Scout was lying just outside Eyemouth bay...
"R.N.L.I."
AMONGST the spectators at the Thames Pageant was an old lady who, on the approach of the Life-boats bearing flags marked R.N.L.I., showed great excitement, and, turning to her companion,I said in a loud voice and with evident pride: "...
Category: Articles