LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
For Weston-Super-Mare Station Branch Last August 21
FOR WESTON-SUPER-MARE station branch last August 21 was a day of double celebration because 1982 was its centenary year and also a new D class inflatable lifeboat, donated by Farnham branch, had come on station. So, at 7.30 that Saturday... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Motor Dinghy From Wishbone
On the afternoon of the 20th July the motor life-boat Hearts of Oak, when off Sconce Point on her return to Yarmouth from exercise off Milford, saw a motor dinghy from the yacht Wishbone drift- ing rapidly towards Shingle...
Admiral Stuart Nicholson, of Bude
BY the death of Admiral Stuart Nicholson, C.B., M.V.O., D.L., on 10th September, at the age of seventy, the Institution has lost one of its most active and successful honorary secre- taries. At the end of 1920 he retired from the Navy after...
Category: Obituaries
Ranger
TOW FOR MOTOR BOAT WITH THREE ABOARD Penlee, Cornwall. At 8.50 on the evening of the 13th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor boat had broken down and was drifting on to the rocks at Carn Du. The...
Oranmore
Baltimore, Co. Cork. At 8.30 a.m. on 6th October, 1963, Valentia Radio told the honorary secretary that one of the crew of the m.v. Oranmore had been seriously injured following a collision between the m.v. Oranmore and the m.v.
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Cascade
SIXTEEN HOUR SERVICE TO DUTCH VESSEL Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. At 2.53 a.m. on Thursday the 26th September, 1963, the Lochmaddy police reported to the Stornoway coastguard that there was a vessel ashore at Sponish Point, Lochmaddy. The...
Annie Gray
The Admiral Henry Meynett life- 'boat, at Ballywalter, went off to the dis- tressed ship Annie Gray, and remained alongside her for some hours, until she got out of her perilous position.
Hood
Gourdon, Kincardineshire At 4.20 A.M. on the 12th August, 1938, the coastguard reported that the steam trawler Hood, of Aberdeen, was ashore about half a mile east of Johnshaven.
She had a crew of eleven on board and was...
A Vessel (15)
DECEMBER 13TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY. A vessel had been reported in distress off Rhoscolyn, but the only steamer found was the Norwegian Nesttun, and she was going on her way. - Rewards, £5 12s.
Mr. Frederick Britain, of Southend-On-Sea
death the Institution greatly regrets is Mr. Frederick Britain, of Southend- on-Sea, who died on 1st January at the age of sixty-eight. For eighteen years he was the honorary secretary of the station. He was appointed in 1914, and retired in...
Category: Obituaries