LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Annual General Meeting of the Scottish Lifeboat Council was held on Wednesday 27 April 1994 in the Banqueting Hall of Glasgow's famous City Chambers. The meeting followed a civic reception for awardees and special guests provided by...

Channel Islands OUR MOST SOUTHERLY LIFEBOAT STATIONS by Joan Davies SOME OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL Sailing waters in the world; a cruising man's dream in themselves and the gateway to Brittany. Such are the seas which surround Alderney,...

MUTUAL AID OFF PORTLAND FOLLOWING the sighting at about 10 p.m. on 4th February, 1972, by the gas tanker Methane Princess of a small vessel firing distress flares off Portland Bill, the Weymouth, Dorset, life-boat was prepared for launching....

Stood by in storm ON SATURDAY December 15, 1979, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Padstow lifeboat station that a vessel three miles north west of Trevose Head had transmitted a mayday distress signal and needed immediate...

FISHING BOAT SAVED FROM ROCKY GRAVE At 4.12 a.m. on 24th January, 1972, the Flamborough coastguard told Mr. Arthur Dick, the honorary secretary, Bridllngton, that the m.f.v. My Susanne was sending out radio messages requesting life-boat...

IN THE SUMMER and early autumn of 1974 exceptional weather conditions were experienced over much of Britain with frequent and prolonged gales. These were particularly severe over the period from Sunday, September 1 to Tuesday, September 3....

MASTER MARINERS AND SEAMEN.

INTIMATELY connected with the work of Preservation of Life from Shipwreck is all that concerns the welfare, and tends to improve the character of the men who constitute our Mercantile Marine,...

ALTHOUGH the scene of the recent terrible disasters, caused by the hurricanes in the West Indies, is far distant from the sphere of the operations of THE NATIONAL LIF£-BOAT INSTITUTION, which finds ample scope for the full exercise of...