LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

SEPTEMBER 10TH. - PORT ASKAIG, ARGYLLSHIRE. At 10.30 in the morning a message was received from the police at Bowmore that an aeroplane had been reported down in the sea near the entrance to Loch Killisport, Knapdale. This was confirmed by...

Padstow April 15, 1985 The strong gales that had lashed the Cornish coasts during the weekend subsided in time for Monday April 15, which dawned overcast but calm and dry. By mid-day the crowds were beginning to line the tiny harbour's...

1.—Moved by His Grace The DUKE OF ARGYLL, KG., K.T.

Seconded by Admiral of the Fleet The Hon. SIR HENRY KEPPEL, G.C.B.

1.—That the Report now read be adopted, printed, and...

Tuesday, 6th May, 1858. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., V.P., F.R.S., in the Chair.

Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...

ST. ANDREW'S.—The sloop May Ann, of and for St. Andrew's, from Shields, with a cargo of coal, arrived off the harbour on the afternoon of the 16th January, and waited for the tide to rise sufficiently high to enable her to enter.<...

NEWSPOINT Since the previous issue of THE LIFEBOAT appeared in January the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day has given both young and old the chance to look back at the heroic deeds and sacrifices made to...

Arranmore, Co. Donegal. At 5.45 on the morning of the 18th November, 1961, a man living in Burtonport told the honorary secretary that a fishing boat had grounded in Arran roads.

The life-boat W. M. Tilson left her moorings...

The Greater London Shield.

AT the Caxton Hall, Westminster, on 13th July, the Challenge Shield for Greater London and the individual prizes won by the schools of Greater London in the Life-boat Essay Competition this year...