LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Malcolm Macdonald
After spending his early working years at sea as a deck apprentice Malcolm Macdonald came home to Stornoway in 1967 when he was appointed mechanic of the lifeboat. In 1979 he took over as coxswain/mechanic, a post which had earlier been held... - View image in PDF
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Right: (L-R) Rick Rava, Nick Beale and Steve Knipe
ilfl Right: (l-r) Rick Rava, Nick Beale and Steve Knipe P-Ctures RNLI/Sue Dennv. - View image in PDF
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Szkuner
Cullercoats, Northumberland - At 4.50 a.m. on 3Oth August, 1966, a fishing vessel was reported aground south of St.
Mary's island. Red flares had been sighted at 5.10. The life-boat Sir James Knott was launched in a...
Membership Scheme News
Happy families There are no prizes for spotting the most recent change to our advertisement for enrolment into the RNLI Membership Scheme. There is no need for 'Family Membership' now, as children can become Storm Force members in...
Category: Articles
Sirius (1)
The local motor fishing boat Sirius, with two men aboard, which the life-boat had saved from destruction a few days earlier, got into difficulties again on the 2nd March. She was fishing about two miles north-east of Dunmore when her...
Mercantile Marine War Memorial
ON 14th December last, the Queen unveiled the memorial, which has been erected on Tower Hill, to the 12,649 men of the Merchant Navy and Fishing Fleets who gave their lives in the Great War and who have no grave but the...
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Cape Sable
On the 25th June, the steam trawler Cape Sable, of Hull, ran aground in a very dangerous place near Hoy Head, in a dense fog.
She was homeward bound from, the fishing grounds at the Faroes, and carried a crew of twelve. A...
Doubled Up
Eliza Fraser, Victoria Jones and Ella Neame teamed up on the last day of the Swanage regatta to paint stones collected from the seaside and sell them in aid of the RNLI.
John, Eliza's dad, volunteered to double whatever... - View image in PDF
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Guild Honorary Secretary, -- M.B.E.
Mrs. Hilda C. Brown, who has been honorary secretary of the Withernsca Ladies' Life-boat Guild since 1926, and was awarded the Institution's gold badge in 1937, has been made an M.B.E. for her many public services during the war..<...
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Waterbird
Portrush, Co. Antrim. — On the night of the 16th February the lifeboat motor mechanic saw red flares, and heard shouting in the Skerrie roads, East Bay. There was no wind, and the sea was smooth, but the weather was thick. The motor lifeboat...