Miss J. McADAM of Monessie, Dalvreck, Crieff, has compiled instructions for a Montrose reel dedicated to the late Chairman of the Scottish Life-boat Council, the Duke of Montrose. All royalties from the sale of the music and the instructions...
Category: Donations
Services by the Life-boats of the Institution, by Shore-boats and by Auxiliary Rescue boats during 1944 During the year life-boats were launched 455 times. Of these launches 280 were to vessels and aeroplanes in distress through attack by...
Category: Services
On the morning of the 30th January the fishing fleet of about thirty boats went out of harbour between 5 and 7 o'clock. At that time the weather was fine and the sea was comparatively smooth. At about 9 o'clock the sea suddenly rose...
Lady Sarah Fitzalan-Howard at the wheel of the new Selsey, Sussex, life-boat — a 48-foot 6-inch Oakleyaccompanied by Coxswain Ron Arnell.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF CREWE, K.G., IN THE CHAIR.
Moved by the Chairman.
Seconded by Admiral SIR COMP- TON EDWARD DOMVILE, G.C.B., G.C.V.O.
1. That the Annual Report be adopted,...
Category: Meetings
July 31: Aberdeen lifeboat, the 54ft Arun BP Forties, helicopter in tow. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of RNAS Lossiemouth. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Reported to the February and March Meetings of the Committee of Management.
PORTRUSH, Co. DOWN.-—About 10.40 A..M on 5th December, 1931, a fishing boat was reported to be in difficulties in the Eastern Bay, and the Motor...
Category: Services
French trawlermen saved IN THE WAKE OF the hurricane which swept across South East England in the early hours of October 16, 1987, many of the boats berthed at Newhaven Harbour—ripped from their moorings in the 90-knot winds—had been blown...
Atlantic 21 saves exhausted yachtsman from breaking seas on lee shoreHelmsman Alan Clarke of the Hunstanton lifeboat has been accorded the Thanks of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution inscribed on Vellum, following the rescue of a...
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At ten o'clock on the night of the 3rd of June, 1956the Polruan coastguard reported that a sailing boat moored off Portscatho seemed to be dragging her anchor. As the weather conditions were bad the life-boat Cunard,...