LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Annual General Meeting
H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT, Presi- dent of the Institution, attended the annual general meeting of the governors of the Institution at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 30th of March, 1960, and presented medals for gallantry and other...
Category: Meetings
Lady Harrison's Gift
THE naming ceremony of a motor life-boat at Port St. Mary, Isle of Man, took place on 25th June. The life-boat is a gift from Lady Harrison in memory of her late husband, Sir Heath Harrison, Bt., the shipowner, of Cheshire and Hampshire, who...
Category: Donations
Alert and Hester
SCARBOROUGH.—On the 12th November, at about 8 A.M., signals of distress were seen to be shown by a schooner at anchor in the Bay during a very strong N. gale.
The Life-boat -Lady Leigh was immediately launched and proceeded...
Mouse
CARDIGAN.—Having received information that a vessel was in distress in Cardigan Bay, while a strong N.W.
gale was blowing, on the 7th November, the Coxswain of the Life-boat Lizzie and Charles Leigh Clare summoned the crew,...
Day Dream and The Raider
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—On the afternoon of the 19th July the Orfordness coastguard reported that a yacht about eight miles S.W. of Orfordness was flying what appeared to be a signal of distress. A moderate S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough...
Moby Dick
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 6.55 on the morning of the 2nd of May, 1955, the Walney Island coastguard rang up to say that he had received a message by radio telephone from the Barrow pilot boat. The pilot boat had found the 24-feet sailing yacht...
The S.S. Russula
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 11.45 on the morning of the 13th of May, 1057, a shipping agent telephoned the life- boat coxswain to say that a seaman on board the S.S. Russula, of Genoa, which was anchored off Lightning Knoll buoy, had fallen down...
The S.S. Baron Inverclyde
DOCTOR TAKEN TO STEAMER IN FOG Barrow, Lancashire. At 10.50 on the morning of the 27th January, 1962, a firm of shipping agents in Barrow told the honorary secretary that the s.s.
Baron Inverclyde of Ardrossan, bound for...
Alexander
CARDIGAN.—:During a gale from the S.W. on the 9th February the schooner Alexander, of Beaumaris, bound from Port Dinorwic for Carmarthen with a cargo of slates, ran for Cardigan Bay, and brought up off the Black Rocks outside the...
Galtee
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At four o'clock on the morning of the 18th of January, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that the coaster Galtee with a cargo of barium ore was making water thirty miles south of Hook Head.<...