LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Loss of Life from Shipwreck on Our Coasts
CIRCUMSTANCES seem to combine in an extraordinary way for spreading very erroneous impressions as to the actual loss of life from shipwreck on the coasts of the United Kingdom. We constantly see in the papers "]ast week's...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services June July and August 1981
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire D class inflatable: August 3 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Relief Atlantic 21: June 13. 18, July 24. 25 and August 8 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: June 3. 4, 8, 24. July 13 (twice), 28, 29. August 6, 20 and 21 Aberystwyth,...
Category: Services
A Sailboard
Carried off shore LIVERPOOL COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Fleetwood lifeboat station at 1749 on Friday March 23, 1984, that a board sailor was in trouble a short distance from the shore opposite Rossall Hospital. Maroons were...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 5th April, 1860. THOMAS BARING, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P.,in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committee.
Category: Committee
The S.S. Isabo
THE month of October ended with, a week of strong winds rising at times to gales, which reached their climax on the 28th and 29th. On those two days it blew a severe gale from the south and west over Southern Ireland, England and Wales,...
Bronze Medal for Gallant Boy
AT 2.36 on the afternoon of the 21st of September, 1952, the sailing boat Tit Bit, of Shellness, with a man and a boy on board capsized one mile off Shellness, in the Isle of Sheppey.
There was a slight sea, and a westerly...
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Lifeboat Services
North Eastern Division Cut off by tide INFORMATION THAT A MAN had been reported cut off by the tide below the cliffs in the vicinity of the Coastguard lookout was passed to the honorary secretary of Whitby lifeboat station at 1630 on Sunday,...
Category: Services
Book Reviews
• A welcome addition to the yachtsman's library of pilotage is the new book Channel Islands Pilot by Malcolm Robson (Nautical Publishing, £7.50) which contains the following appreciation by Major-General R. H. Farrant, CB, Chairman...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 4th August, 1859. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., V.P., F.E.S., in the Chair.
Bead and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
The North Kessock Lifeboat Crew Flanking (From Left to Right) His Grace the Duke of Atholl, Station Honorary Secretary Capt J.B. Fairgrieve, Mrs Joyce Cowie, Ian Cowie and Campbell
The North Kessock lifeboat crew flanking (from left to right) His Grace the Duke of Atholl, station honorary secretary Capt J.B. Fairgrieve, Mrs Joyce Cowie, Ian Cowie and Campbell Ross, branch chairman.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs