LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Category: Advertisement
October (1)
NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. Four men were out fishing in the motor fishing boat Little Old Lady on the 14th of July, 1943, and at about 8.30 in the morning saw a parachute from a Thunderbolt aeroplane floating down about two miles south of Peacehaven....
Category: Services
Legacies Received In 1896
FOR SPECIAL TKUST PURPOSES.
£ s. d.
Atherstone, J. G., Esq., Montrose (balance) 487 6 2 Chapman, Mrs. M. A., Cathcart Road, S.W 1100 4 4 Dudley, J. W., Esq., Woodforrt . 700 - -...
Category: Donations
Royal Ceremony at Broughty Ferry
H.R.H. Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution, named the new life-boat at a ceremony held at Broughty Ferry on Monday, May 15th, 1961. In her speech Princess Marina said:— "I can assure you that I am especially...
Category: Inaugurations
Resolutions Passed at the Annual General Meeting for 1909
THE RIGHT HON. LORD GEORGE F. HAMILTON, G.C.S.I., is THE CHAIR.
Moved by The Chairman.
Seconded by SIR JOHN CAMERON LAMB, C.B., C.M.G.
1. That the Annual Report be adopted, printed and...
Category: Meetings
Star
" At 2 A.M. on the 23rd October, the Lifeboat proceeded to the assistance of a schooner; bnt her services were not called into requisition. The boat regained her station at six o'clock, and had only been moored forty minutes when...
Providence and Children's Friend
Amble, Northumberland.—The motor life-boat Frederick and Emma, which was placed at Amble when that lifeboat station was reopened at the beginning of 1939, received her first service call at 8.30 A.M. on the 15th March.
1939...
A Fishing Boat
Portrush, Co. Antrim.—On the night of the 2nd of August, 1949, a moderately strong northerly wind was blowing, with a rough sea, and at 9.50 the coast- guard telephoned that a fishing boat appeared to be in difficulties and had...
None (2)
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 7.20 on the morning of the 14th of December, 1956, the St. John Ambulance Area Commissioner reported that an urgent call had been received from a doctor at Sark informing him of a maternity case requiring...
A Rowing Skiff
Droughty Ferry, Angus. At 4.30 a.m. on 3ist May, 1964, the police informed the coxswain that a man who was swimming in the Tay, 300 yards off Broughty Castle, appeared to be in difficulties.
An empty rowing skiff was seen a...