LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Invergordon (Continued from Page 166)
(continued from page 166) breeding ground of many severe squalls and walls of white squalls were whistling across the firth, bringing'snow and stinging spray in their path.
Outside the firth, in the open sea, the south...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
CAHORE, Co. WEXFORD.—A messenger arrived at this Life-boat Station from Morris Castle, distant about three Irish miles south, on the evening of the 17th May, and reported that a vessel was stranded on the Blackwater Bank. The Life-boat John...
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Bronze for Lochinver coxswain
Remember our rescue story in Spring 2015, reporting how Lochinver and Thurso crews aided a fish carrier during a 13-hour rescue in a gale? Now the Lochinver Coxswain, David MacAskill (above right), is to be awarded an RNLI Bronze Medal for...
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Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1862
1.—Moved by The Right Hon. the LOED MAYOR, and carried unanimously,— 1.—That the following noblemen and gentlemen be the officers of the Institution for the current year:—(tscfe last page for this list) 2.—Moved by Vice-Admiral the Right Hon...
Category: Meetings
An American Shooting Star Trainer Aircraft
Margate, Kent.—At 3.26 on the after- noon of the 20th of November, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that two local fishermen reported seeing an American Shooting Star trainer air- craft crash about three miles north- east of Margate pier. At...
Jos Maria
1st Septem- ber. The motor barge Jos Maria, of Schiedam, appeared to be in difficulties but made port without help.—Rewards, £7 7s. 6d..
Stop press
As the Lifeboat went to print, we heard that Chief Executive Andrew Freemantle’s successor when he retires in September will be Paul Boissier.
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Returning from the Sands
The Walmer life-boat and her crew The 'last photograph is by Mr. Bert. Hardy, of Picture Post, and is reproduced by kind permission of that paper. The other photographs are by Mr. George Goldsmith Carter, author of Looming Lights, A True... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hyannis Massachusetts to Rockland Maine By M G K Pennell
THE OPPORTUNITY to visit overseas lifeboat organisations is usually limited to the four-yearly International Lifeboat Conference; to be invited, and spon-' sored privately, to spend a week in the United States for what was to prove a...
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