LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Peterhead, Aberdeen.—2nd May. A telephone message was received from a man that he had heard on his wireless receiver a trawler calling Wick Radio to get into touch with the life-boat, as another trawler was ashore north of Buchan Ness. The...

IN the article in the last number on Mrs. Edith Manby's scarf-helmets for life-boatmen it was stated that over half a hundredweight of wool was used.

This should have been over a quarter of a ton..

Stornoway, Island of Lewis. •—• 15th January, 1938. A fishing boat was overdue, but the two men on board, the 'life-boat coxswain and his son, unable to get back owing to trouble with their engine, had anchored their boat in a sheltered...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister, Norfolk.—1st February, 1938. A barge was in distress, but a coasting motor vessel towed her into Yarmouth Roads. The Great Yarmouth and Gorleston motor life-boat was launchedand the Caister...

Portaskaig, Isle of Islay.—9th March, 1938. A trawler had been wrecked at Smuall Point, but eight of her crew of eleven were rescued from the shore by men with lines; the other three had been washed away and lost.—Rewards, £8...

Eye mouth, Berwickshire.—23rd July, 1939. A raft with two boys on board was drifting seawards, but one of the boys succeeded in swimming ashore.

The other was drowned, and his body recovered by another...

COXSWAIN JOHN TRIMBLE, of the Donaghadee, Co. Down, lifeboat Sir Samuel Kelly. Appointed coxswain in April, 1960, he was second coxswain from November, 1954, until his present appointment.

Since April, 1950, when he was...

Red Hand Cerrux finishes are used on RNLI lifeboats The Red Hand Compositions Co.

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