LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

INVERGORDON, ROSS-SHIRE. On the 21st of August, 1946, the Invergordon and Balblair motor ferry boat was on a run to Invergordon when, at 4.20, she saw a naval whaler capsize. A north-east wind was blowing against the ebb tide and raising a...

Our lifeboat crews and lifeguards carry out thousands of rescues every year. Here are just some of those caught on camera, and see the following pages for more reports:

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Clogher Head

HOLLYWOOD COMES TO CLOGHER HEAD

Volunteers at Clogher Head Lifeboat Station were overwhelmed by local support for a fundraising event in aid of the station’s Shannon class lifeboat appeal....

• MAJOR John Showell-Rogers, R.M., is the station honorary secretary at Poole, Dorset, where there is a 35-foot 6-inch Liverpool type life-boat, the George Elmy, and a Dell Q.uay dory inshore life-boat with the hull number...

The following letter, extracts of which are published here, was received in September, 1968, from Raymond Baxter, formerly Director of Motoring Publicity, The British Motor Corporation Ltd., and well-known television com- mentator, enclosing...

Time of 1929. Launching.

Jan. 1. 1.45p.m.

1. 2.40p.m.

„ 2. 10.0 a.m.

„ 2. 3.15p.m.

„ 5-6. 3.39p.m.

9. 11.25...

Launches 36 Lives rescued 49 SEPTEMBER 2ND. - WALMER, KENT. A leading seaman on H.M.S. Fossbeck had his skull fractured when a bucket of ashes fell on him, and at six in the morning the motor life-boat Langham, on temporary duty at the...

" Imagine that You have been Shipwrecked and Rescued by a Life-boat.

Describe Your Experiences." THE Duke of Northumberland's Life- boat Essay Competition for elementary schools has been held this year for...