LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

HOLYHEAD.—A telegram was received at 8.50 A.M. on the 6th September, reporting a vessel in distress half a mile from the South Stack. The signal for the Lifeboat was at once fired, and in seven minutes the Thomas Fielden was launched, and...

During the afternoon of the 26th February, the Life-boat Tyretta, in answer to signals of distress, was launched to the assistance of the schooner Friends, of Killyleigh, which vessel having had all her sails blown away while on a voyage...

The drifter Olive, of Banff, which went ashore on 19th October, 1933, after striking the North Pier. - View image in PDF

Lieut.-Col. Sir John Collie, C.M.G., M.D., J.P., the distinguished physician and the authority on malingering, died on 3rd April at the age of seventy-five.

He had been a member of the committee of management since April,...

On the 8th of November, 1956, the St. David's life-boat was launched to help the French trawler Notre Dame de Fatima, which was in distress three miles south-west of Skokholm light.

The life-boat rescued the trawler'...

Dover, Kent. At 6.52 on the evening of the 3rd of October, 1957, a message was received that a small motor boat was burning distress flares west of Dover. Eight minutes later the life- boat Southern Africa put out in a moderate sea. There...

Lieut.-Colonel E. G. H. Livesey, who was District Organising Secretary for the Midlands from 1952 to 1957, died on the 29th of March, 1958. Lieut.- Colonel Livesey was educated at Epsom College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and...

Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—At 10.10 on the night of the 23rd of De- cember, 1948, the harbour watchman telephoned that a fishing vessel was burning flares about four miles east of Kinnaird Head, and at 10.20, in the charge of Captain R. T....