LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cotick
At 11.36 p.m. on 22nd August, 1966, a yacht was reported ashore near the harbour entrance. The life-boat Thomas Corbett was launched at 11.45 in an easterly breeze and slight sea. Low water was at midnight. The life-boat came up with the...
A Boat
Bridlington, Yorkshire - At 5.15 p.m. on 8th December, 1966, it was reported that a small boat with an outboard motor had not returned from a fishing trip. Later it was confirmed that the boat was overdue. It had last been seen three miles...
Awards to Honorary Workers
Honorary Life-Governors.
Lady DOROTHY D'OYLY CARTE has been appointed an honorary life-governor of the Institution in recognition of the valuable services which she has rendered to the life-boat cause in...
Category: Awards
Fishing Cobles
OCT. 19TH. - NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND.
During the morning the second coxswain reported that six fishing cobles had not returned from the night fishing. A gentle N.E. breeze was blowing.
The sea was...
Seventeenth of May
On the 3rd Feb., during an easterly gale, the Job Uindley Life-boat on this station was launched on observing the wreck of the Nor- wegian schooner Seventeenth of May, from which she was successful in saving 7 men..
Minerva
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 3.40 in the afternoon of the 25th of July, 1947, distress signals made by a steam whistle could be heard. In a dense fog the motor life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was launched at...
Silver Scale
NOVEMBER 25TH. - NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND. The motor life-boat W.R.A. was launched in a heavy sea at 1.30 in the afternoon and stood by at the harbour mouth while the local fishing boat Silver Scale came in. She returned to her...
Kathleen,
SCARBOROUGH.—Two boatmen who were looking out from the Castle Yard, on the morning of the 21st July, observed avessel stranded about three miles N. The weather was thick, no wind was blowing and the sea was moderately rough. The Life-boat...
Family's Pride
Montrose, Angus.—At 6.7 on the even- ing of the 25th of August, 1953, the Usan coastguard passed on a message from a pilot that the Arbroath fishing boat Family's Pride had left Montrose under sail that afternoon, bound for Arbroath with...
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APPRECIATION RECEIVED Aith, Shetlands. At 2.40 p.m. on I4th August, 1965, the local doctor was told by the district nurse on the Island of Foula that a patient was seriously ill. Her removal to hospital was necessary and the assistance of...