LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Weymouth, Dorset.—At 11.15 P.M.

* * on the 7th October, 1939, the coastguard informed the life-boat station that signals of distress had been seen near Grove Point. A message was received a few minutes later that a ship was...

On the 5th August, the ship Empire Queen, of Dublin, was stranded during foggy weather on the south end of the Arldovv Bank. The life-boat Alfred and Ernest, sta- tioned at Courtown, went out, in reply to signals of distress, and at the...

FROM THE BOAT SHOW • Very encouraging it was, at a Boat Show just managing to weather a fuel crisis, to find on display a means of generating power relying on neither oil nor coal. Lucas/C.A.V. Marine were showing a solar battery charger for...

DOCTOR TO A SCALDED MAN Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 2.30 in the afternoon of February 12th, 1947, a firm of shipping agents in Belfast tele- phoned requesting the help of the life- boat to take a doctor out to a vessel at anchor in Carrick...

OCT. 9TH. - AITH, SHETLANDS. Information was received through the coastguard at 1.45 P.M. that the S.S. Vistula, of Gothenburg Sweden, had been sunk by enemy action on the previous day twenty-five miles off Unst, that nine of her crew had...

MAY 24TH. - STORNOWAY, ISLAND OF LEWIS. At 6.15 P.M. it was reported by the coastguard that the firing of rifles or rockets had been heard in Broad Bay. Later a message was received from another source that a vessel was ashore near the...

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent addresses the meeting before presenting the awards.. - View image in PDF

Captain Nigel Dixon, R.N., who becomes Secretary of the R.N.L.I, at the end of the year.. - View image in PDF