LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A New Station on the West of Scotland. Port Askaig, Isle of Islay, Argyllshire
Port Askaig, Isle of Islay, Argyllshire.
LAST year a new life-boat station was established on the West of Scotland, at Port Askaig, Isle of Islay, Argyllshire.
The self-righting motor life-boat Frederick...
Category: Inaugurations
Lifeboat Services
The Lifeboat Mersey class ON 1169 Marine Engineer The Crew • Bronze Atedgf Co» swain Fr«d WalMngton for his 'courage, seamanship skills.
competence, local knowledge and professional...
Category: Services
Memories of Sir William Hillary
Manx Memories and Movements, by Samuel Norris, Isle of Man: The Norris Modern Press, Ltd., 12s. 6d.
MR. NORRIS is an English journalist who, in 1894, when not yet twenty years old, landed in the Isle of...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
THE full record of the life-boat service in the past year was a truly remarkable one. In no other year since the Institu- tion was founded in 1824 have life-boats been called out so often to vessels in distress at sea. The total number of...
Category: Articles
United States Coast Guard: a Glimpse By Trevor Ramsden Station Administrative Officer Padstow
THE SIGHT AND SMELL of bacon and hash browns at 90 degrees in the shade was a bit overpowering as a greeting to Grand Haven Coast Guard Station. A sympathetically smiling cook soon corrected my mistaken entrance and directed me to the...
Category: Articles
Feature from Saving Goals to Saving Lives
Surf 'n' turf beach footie Bournemouth beach 17 August 2002 Team event for groups of five people The great Liverpool manager Bill Shankly once said 'football's not a matter of life and death, it's much more important than...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 11th October, 1906. SIR EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and Correspondence, and...
Category: Committee
Cheboque, of The Royal Canadian Navy
OCTOBER 11TH - 12TH. THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE. The frigate Cheboque, of the Royal Canadian Navy, had been torpedoed in the Atlantic eleven hundred miles away, with the loss of one of her crew of forty-three, and severe damage to her stern...
Comitas
Whitby, Runswick, Redcar and Tees- mouth, Yorkshire.—On the afternoon of the 27th October the Italian steamer Comitas, of Genoa, left the Tees to go to Hartlepool for cargo. A strong north-westerly gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea,...
Varvassi
GREEK STEAMER AGROUND ON THE NEEDLES Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 7.26 in the morning of January 5th, 1947, the Totland coastguard reported to the life-boat station by telephone that a message had been received from a vessel aground near...