LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Stalwart volunteers from Downend, Kmgswood and district branch give a smile for the camera while selling souvenirs at Bristol harbour regatta in August- Volunteers from South Bristol, Tetbury and Nailsea branches also put in hard work during... - View image in PDF

Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—At 2.0 in the afternoon, on the 3rd of December, 1950, the South Gare coastguard tele- phoned that three tugs towing hoppers were making heavy weather. One tug and hopper were close inshore. The life-boat crew assembled...

Helvick Head, Co. Waterford. Shortly before midday on the 29th of January, 1961, the honorary secretary was in- formed that the French trawler Sainte Catherine of L'Orient, with a crew of nine, had gone ashore in Dungarvan Bay. At twelve...

Plymouth, Devon ; and Fowey, Corn- wall. At 4.42 on the afternoon of the 18th of March, 1960, the signal station at Longroom informed the honorary secretary of the Plymouth life-boatstation of a report received from the pilot cutter. This...

Filey, Yorkshire.—Early on the morning of the 12th November, 1937, nine fishing cobles put to sea. At 8.55 A.M.

a squally N.N.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea. The pulling and sailing life-boat Thomas Masterman Hardy...

Mr. R. B. Scott, Motor Mechanic at New Brighton.

BY the death, on 23rd July at the age of sixty-two, of Mr. Kalph Brown Scott, Chief Motor Mechanic of the Life-boat at New Brighton on the Mersey, a Lifeboatman with a very...

Honorary Life-Governors The following have been appointed honor- ary life-governors of the Institution and pre- sented with a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum and signed by H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent as President of the...

Hurricane force 12 STORM FORCE WINDS, gusting to hurricane force 12 from the west south west, were sweeping the west coast of Scotland on the morning of Thursday March 20, 1986, when the Troon pilot heard over his radio that the fishing...