LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Four Members of the Committee of Management
THE EARL OF HOME LIEUT.-COL. THE EARL OF HOME died on the llth of July, 1951, at the age of 77. He had been a vice-president of the Institution since 1923. He was elected chairman of the executive committee of the Scottish Life-boat"...
Category: Obituaries
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1877
HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O., D.C.L., IN THE CHAIR.
1.—Moved by the CHAIRMAN :— 1.—That the following Noblemen and Gentlemen be the Officers of the Institution for the current year:—(vide next page for this...
Category: Meetings
Bose
The remarkable Bose' Wave' radio/CD. What did we do with a radio called "perfect" by Monitoring Times? Improve it, of course. Only this time, we added a CD player so you can enjoy sparkling clarity and deep lows whether you...
Category: Advertisement
The Wreck of the "Islander."
A TRAGIC disaster occurred on the coast of Cornwall during a severe gale which struck the coast towards the end of August, when the cutter Islander, of the Royal Yacht Squadron, was driven ashore in Lantivet Bay, about three miles from Fowey...
Category: Articles
Arbroath Guild
The biennial Caledonian market is a highlight in Arbroath guild's calendar.
Opening at 10.30 on the first Wednesday in August, with a queue forming at 9 am, members of the local 'Old Men's Club' take a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Accrington and the S.S. Hamsterlay
DEC. 4TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. - At 2.45 A.M., a message was received from the Gorleston coastguard that the S.S. Accrington, of Grimsby, was in the roadstead with twentytwo survivors of the crew of the S.S....
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Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. •— At five in the evening of the 15th of No- vember, 1948, an urgent call was received for the life-boat to take a woman, who was suffering with acute appendicitis, to Lochboisdale, in South Uist. The...
Crest
Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At half past eight in the evening, on the 19th of May, 1950, a telephone call from Port Skerra reported a fishing boat flying distress signals. At 8.45 the life-boat H.C.J. was launched in a rough sea with a strong...
The Life-Boatman
Blind eyes turn towards the sea, And through a mist of age and time A tiny speck which once a flame Pleads to answer loud maroons Which call 'Distress'. Gnarled hands, Hard as oak, shake, yet once threw Lines, and pulled an oar to...
Category: Poetry
Fishing community
This is the scene that greeted the crew of Exmouth’s relief Mersey class lifeboat Fisherman's Friend, responding to a shout on 26 November 2008. The fishing vessel Aleyna had overturned 26 miles south east of the Devon town and her crew...
Category: Articles