LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Aith, Shetland—22nd February. Early in the morning the telephone service having failed, the volunteer-in-charge of the Board of Trade rocket lifesaving apparatus at Walls travelled ten miles to bring news from Lerwick that flares had been...

Aith, Shetlands.—About 8.0 on the night of the 4th of February, 1951, the Lerwick harbour-master reported that the M.V. Tanga, of Rotterdam, had wirelessed that she was seeking shelter north-west of Shetland. She asked for a pilot to be sent...

Aith, Shetlands - At 12.45 a.m. on 3rd July, 1966, the medical authorities requested the assistance of the life-boat to take a doctor and nurse to Foula Island where someone was seriously ill. The life-boat John and Frances Macfarlane was...

Aith, Shetlands. At 9.26 on the morn- ing of the 21st September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secre- tary that a fishing vessel had broken down near the island of Papa Stour.

At 9.58 the life-boat John and...

LVIII. SUNDERLAND.—The Good Templar, 30 feet by 8 feet, 8 oars.

LIX. Ditto.—The Mary, 30i feet by 8J feet, 10 oars.

LX. Ditto.—The Florence Nightingale, 33 feet by 8 feet, 10...

Since the last number of The Lifeboat appeared, the Institution has lost by death several valued friends and workers, among them the distinguished surgeon, Sir William Milligan, M.D., LL.D., J.P.,Chairman of the Manchester, Salford and...

The Committee of Management suffered another severe loss with the death on 21st July of Mr. Norman Wales, J.P., who joined the Committee in 1961 and served on a number of sub-committees. He was chairman of Wates Ltd.

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It is with great sorrow that we announce the death early last October of Mrs. Osman Gabriel. Mrs. Gabriel was herself the generous donor of an Atlantic 21 inshore lifeboat, and it was in her honour that the second 37' Rother class...