LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 31st December, 1954 79,058 Notes of the Quarter THE year 1954 has been one on which the Life-boat...

AT 7.8 on the evening of the 18th of November, 1959, the coastguard at Banff informed Coxswain William Pirie of Whitehills that red flares had been seen four miles off Portsoy. At 7.30 the Whitehills life-boat St. Andrew (Civil Service No....

Flamborough, Yorkshire.—At 6.5 on the morning of the 10th of June, 1953, the coxswain heard a message on his wireless set from Cullercoats radio station that the S.S. Firelight had collided with the trawler Riviere. of Grirnsby, about five...

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...

Lives saved.

Newbiggin, North Sunder- land, Port Isaac, Scarboro', Staithes, Stonehaven, Whitby —rendered assistance.

Frobfsher, steam trawler, of Yar- mouth, assisted to save vessel and 9 George...

Mr. Neil Speed, the skipper of the motor fishing vessel Moira, has been accorded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum for the rescue of 10 people from the motor yacht Quesada on the night of 22nd/23rd May,...

GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—The first Life- boat service in the year 1872 was, that on the 1st January, by the boat on this station, it happening to be the only service performed by a Life-boat of the Institution on New Year's Day,...

AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall, on Tuesday, the 23rd day of March, The Eight Honourable Lord George F. Hamilton, G.C.S.I., in the Chair, the...