LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

MORAY FIRTH, NAIENSHIRE. —Telegrams were received from Burghead and Findhorn, on the 13th August, to the effect that a barque was ashore between Findhorn and the Old Bar, beyond the reach of the rocket apparatus. The Caulfield and Ann...

Donaghadee, Co. Down. At noon on the 13th of July, 1958, the Orlock coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boat had capsized off Carrickfergus in Belfast Lough. At12.20 the life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson, on temporary duty at...

Loch Fyne restaurants, long-standing supporters of the RNLI, are redoubling their efforts with a fundraising push this Autumn.

The company is challenging each of its 44 restaurants to raise £500 by the end of November...

At 8 A.M. on the 21st May a whole N.W. gale sprang up, bringing with it a heavy sea. The whole of the local fishing fleet were at sea, and one boat—the Thistle—with a crew of four, shipped a sea which stopped her engine and rendered her...

Shortly before this issue went to press Hartlepool's Waveney Class lifeboat The Scout capsized twice while on service to the 97,000 ton tanker Freja Svea which was dragging her anchor and eventually went aground in Severe Gale Force...

LAST Christmas a Leeds firm, Messrs.

Schofields, had a Christmas tree in the arcade outside their stores and asked for a life-boat collecting box to put beside it. They collected in it £212 9s.

The...

Derek Lionel Scott Former Mumbles coxswain (see right) Derek Scott BEM Derek joined The Mumbles lifeboat crew in 1947 following a disaster when the lifeboat overturned with the loss of all her crew. In 1950 he was made bowman, in 1952 second...

Election of Eight Honorary Life-Governors.

THE following have been elected Honorary Life-Governors of the Institu- tion in recognition of their long and distinguished services, and have been presented with a copy of the...