LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

(Above) A long service for Donaghadee lifeboat: On July 17, 1956, MV Douglas, of Bergen, went ashore at the Maidens on an ebbing tide. Sir Samuel Kelly, slipping her moorings at 0830, found her hard and fast on the rocks, holed and taking... - View image in PDF

THE Dundee Life-boat Day this summer was an outstanding event. The Honorary Secretary, Mr. Lindsay, and his Life-boat Day Sub-Committee had j the very generous help of Mr. Kalph (.'. Cowper, the General Manager of the Dundee, Perth and...

crew acquitted themselves with distinction in spite of the fact that two of the members were in their 50s. Rowing an unfamiliar type of craft known as a Monamoy, they won their heat against a formidable crew representing the US National...

Agenese, brig, of Sandefjord—as- sisted to save vessel.

Alice, ketch, of Milford 2 Alonso, 8.8., of Hull 7 Arbroath fishing boats—remained in attendance.

Arne,& schooner.of Soon—assisted to...

In the December 1965 issue an obituary notice appeared of the late Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry F. Oliver, G.C.B., K.C.M.G., M.V.O., which was necessarily brief because of pressure on space. It would, indeed, be difficult to do justice to...

Despite injury FAIRLIGHT COASTGUARD informed the Hastings deputy launching authority at 1120 on December 23, 1974, that there had been an explosion on board the Argentinian warship Candida de Lasala and medical help was needed. Maroons were...

Paper read by Sir JOHN CAHEBON LAMB, C.B., C.M.G., V.P., Deputy-Chairman of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, before the Royal Society of Arts, on the 16th February, 1910. Colonel Sir FrrzRoY CLAYTON, K.C.V Colonel Sir FrrzRoY...

Just eight days later Soldian was once again at sea on service to another factory ship in severe weather. At 2310 on Wednesday 17 November the Kaliningrad-registered factory trawler Borodinskoye Polye went ashore on the Unicorn reef in the...