LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
October (1)
OCTOBER MEETING ST.ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE. About mid-day on the 13th of July, 1945, it was reported that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea off St.
Abbs Head. A light north-east wind was blowing, with a slight sea, and the...
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Contents
/ 1 . Notes of the Quarter, by Patrick Howarth 147 International Lifeboat Conference, by Patrick Howarth 148 XLVT Summary of Accounts for 1978 149 468 Lifeboat Services 150 Lifeboats of the World: Part II—Sea rescue outside Europe, by...
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July
JULY 11TH . - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 5 in the morning the coastguard reported that a steam trawler was ashore and then that she was making distress signals, and the motor life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was...
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Bedridden Girl's Life-Boat Bazaars
A FRAMED picture of a Life-boat going out to a vessel in distress has been presented to Miss Ruby Snow, of Bideford, in gratitude for her work for the Life-boat Service. Although Miss Snow, who is seventeen years old, has been bedridden for...
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Mr. Herbert Statham, Westminster West Rotary Club Past-President, Hands Over a Cheque for £18,000 Towards a New Life-Boat to Mr. W. T. Bishop (Left), R.N.L.I., at Royal Overseas League Head
Mr. Herbert Statham, Westminster West Rotary Club past-president, hands over a cheque for £18,000 towards a new life-boat to Mr. W. T. Bishop (left), R.N.L.I., at Royal Overseas League headquarters, St. James's. The money was... - View image in PDF
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Rescue from a Turkish Steamer
AT 3.10 on the afternoon of the 18th of May, 1955, Coxswain William Cox. of Wells, was told by the coastguard that a message had been received from the S.S. Richmond Queen, of London, that the S.S. Zor, of Istanbul, was in distress six miles...
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Mersey, of Liverpool
On the 5th June, the schooner Mersey, of Liverpool, went on the South Bishop Rock and sank. Signals of distress were made by the light- keepers, whereupon the Life-boat Augusta proceeded out, and brought the vessel's crew of 4 men safely...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 9th January, 1902.
Captain the Hon. JOHN M. YORKE, R.N., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Reported that His Majesty THE KING had...
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Margaret
THORPE.—On the 10th November, the schooner Margaret, of Goole, riding off Thorpeness during a S.S.W. gale, was observed to drag her anchor. She slipped her cable, but her rudder chains broke, she became unmanageable, and drove on to the...
Notes of the Quarter
THE LOSS of Penlee lifeboat and her crew stunned people throughout Great Britain and Ireland and thousands of messages of sympathy from many parts of the world were received by the bereaved families. Before she was lost, the lifeboat Solomon...
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