LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

BUDDON-NESS, DUNDEE.—On the 3rd of December, 1862, the schooner Osprey, of Fraserburgh, with a cargo of wheat from Rostock, struck on the Abertay Bank, the weather being foggy, with a strong gale blowing from the S.E. As soon as she was...

SOUVENIRS OF THE 150th ANNIVERSARY John Sunday Lifeboat Jubilee Rose bushes, price 80/ each (carriage and packing 35p per order). Order forms from RNLI, West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset, BH 5 HZ..

Pushing the boat out (above and left} ~ In September Bundoran branch organised a sponsored 'boat push' from Ballyshannon to Bundoran which raised £2,500 for lifeboat funds,. - View image in PDF

Dover, Kent.—2nd October. The Hillman air liner G-ACPM crashed in the Channel, and broke in pieces, all seven on board being killed.—Rewards, £2 17s..

TilE annual award for the bravest lifeboat deed of 1947, known as the "Miss Maud Smith's reward for courage,, in memory of John, 7th Earl of Hardwicke," has been made to Coxswain Edwin F. Madron,' of Penlee, for the rescue...

SICK MAN LANDED Salcombe, South Devon;—At 10.20 on the night of the 14th of December, 1947, the Hope Cove coastguard, tele- phoned that the American steamer Thomas W. Owen, of Wilmington, was waiting ten miles due south of Prawle Point for a...

THE Institution has awarded a certifi- cate of service to Joseph Rourke, of Howth, co. Dublin, and has also made him a compassionate grant. He was born in 1854 and became a member of the Howth crew in 1870,-at the age of sixteen. He served...

St. Ives, Cornwall. At 3 p.m. on 34th June, 1965, a member of the inshore rescue boat crew waS informed that' an flntboard motor boat had .broken down <$E St. Ives Head and that another motor boat had gone to, her assistance. On...