LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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DIFFICULT PASSAGE TO NORTHERN ISLAND Aith, Shetlands. At 6.50 on the evening of the 8th February, 1962, a doctor in Walls informed the honorary secretary that he had received an urgent call from a nurse on Foula Island for him to attend a...
The Danish Gas Tanker Inga Tholstrup (1)
Gas tanker aground A DANISH GAS TANKER, Inga Tholstrup, ran aground on Craig Waugh, two miles south east of Inchkeith in the Firth of Forth, early in the morning of Monday November 10, 1986. Forth Coastguard alerted Dunbar lifeboat station,...
August
Launches 70 Lives rescued 107
AUGUST 3RD. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. In the afternoon the motor lifeboat Sir Heath Harrison had just returned from an exercise when a telephone message was received from a private...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 1st June, 1911. j The Bight Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., ; in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting. ! Also read those of -the Building, Finance j and Correspondence, Wreck and...
Category: Committee
May (1)
MAY MEETING GRIMNESS, ORKNEYS. About 2 in the afternoon of the 30th January, 1940, a ship’s boat, which had got away from the S.S.
Giralda, of Leith, after she had been bombed by German aeroplanes, was seen drifting ashore...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At about 2 o'clock on the morning of the 6th January three of the fishing cobles belonging to Flamborough put out to sea. About three hours later, when the boats were five miles from home, the N.N.W. wind...
Category: Services
News from the Branches
Eastbourne.
AFTER the very successful Life-boat Day held at Eastbourne on the 31st July, by which the sum of over £550 was raised, the following letter appeared in the Eastbourne papers from...
Category: Branches
Annual Report
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Willis's Booms, King Street, St. James's Square, on Tuesday, 13th day of March, 1883, His Grace THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O., D.C.L., President of...
Category: Annual Reports
P. M. Willcock
.—At 3.10A.M.
on the 28th March the Coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore in Youghal Bay, about three miles to the S.W. of the station. A strong S.E.
gale prevailed at the time, with a very heavy...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
SCARBOROUGH.—On the morning of the 2nd December, 1886, during a heavy gale from the N., the dandy Gustave, of and from St. Yalery-en-Canx for North Shields with flint stone, brought up in the roads about a mile S.E. from the piers, showed...
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