LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Boat (1)
MCH. 18TH. - COURTMACSHERRY HARBOUR, CO. CORK. A motor boat had been reported in distress off the Old Head of Kinsale, but she made safety while the lifeboat was searching for her.-Rewards,.
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New birth for Oban lifeboat!Oban's new Trent had been on service for less than three weeks when her services were first officially recognised - by the naming of a baby!baby! The Trent, Mora Edith Macdonald, received her 'award'...
Shemara
Eight saved on January night IN THE SMALL HOURS of Thursday January 31, 1985 the coastguard reported to Oban's honorary secretary that a fishing vessel, Shemara, was aground on Lady's Rock and was in urgent need of the lifeboat.The...
Gowan
.—On the morn- ing of the 3rd March the coxswain was told that a fishing boat had been seen in difficulties. As it was known that the local motor fishing boat Gowan, with four men on board, was overdue from the fishing grounds, it was...
Life-Boat Saturday Fund
DURING the past year the difficulties— at all times serious—encountered by those endeavouring by personal effort to raise money for, and increase public interest in, deserving charities and in- stitutions have been in evidence in a greater...
Category: Articles
Central Appeals Committee
WHO WE ARE—We are a group of voluntary workers, each associated with a branch or guild, who believe that the financial needs of the R.N.L.I. are urgent and that the new money necessary to meet the previous deficits and rising costs can be...
Category: Committee
Some Ways of Raising Money
Miss Mackie-Campbell of Stonefield, Argyll, organised an equestrian day and designated the RNLI as a halfbeneficiary.
The event had to be postponed owing to atrocious weather, but in spite of this, when held soon afterwards...
Category: Donations
Galilee
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 11.41 on the morning of the 5th of Octeber, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that the fishing vessel Galilee with a crew of five had gone aground near the east pier and was in danger of being carried on to the Scaur...
Catharina W.
Arranmore, Co. Donegal. At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 31st of July, 1959, the Malin Head radio station informed the honorary secretary of a distress message received from a Dutch coaster stating that she had broken down north of Arran...
Highland Laddie
Dungeness, Kent - At 11.30 a.m. on 12th July, 1967, news was received that the cabin cruiser Highland Laddie was aground off Lade. The life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 11.50 in a fresh...