LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
February (1)
LYBSTER, CAITHNESS-SHIRE. At 10 o’clock in the morning of the 4th of December, 1945, three men in the motor fishing boat Seaflower, of Wick, had completed hauling their lobster creels, when their boat shipped a sea which stopped the engine....
Category: Services
Life-Boat Broadcasts In 1951
THE principal life-boat broadcast in 1951 was in November, when "The Life-boat Story" was told in a series Science and Life in the programme London Calling Asia. Colonel A. D.
Burnett Brown, the secretary, Com-...
Category: Articles
Fjordheim
The No. 2 Life-boat Edmund Harvey and the Insti- tution's steam-tug were called out for service at 8 P.M. on the 6th March. A telephone message stated that signals of distress had been reported N.N.E.
from Pentire, and...
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To WM. HENRY TRIPP, on his retirement, after serving 12J years as Bowman, 3J years as Second Coxswain, and nearly 14 years as Coxswain of the Porthoustock Life-boat, a Framed Certificate of Service and a Pension.
To MATTHEW...
Category: Awards
The 37-Foot Yacht Gannet (1)
JUNE 5TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE, AND LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE. Two Americans left Liverpool in the 37-foot yacht Gannet to sail home across the Atlantic. With them was a third man who was to leave them at...
Strathavon, of Scarborough
Aberdeen.—Early on the morning of the 13th August the coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore at or near Portlethen. A gentle southerlybreeze was blowing, with a moderate sea and thick fog. The reserve motor life-boat J. & W., which...
Fraserburgh
A DEPLORABLE accident, which resulted in the loss of two lives, occurred at Fraserburgh, on the 28th April. The Admiralty drifter Eminent, which left Buryhead the previous night, bound for Fraserburgh to be " demobilised," had an...
Category: Articles
Sailing Today
GET 3 ISSUES FOR JUST £1 We’re delighted to offer members of the RNLI this opportunity to help celebrate our 10th birthday with the next 3 issues of Sailing Today for just £1. Welcome aboard In case you haven’t picked up a copy of...
Category: Advertisement
Martell Cognac
The spirit of Tradition Michel Martell, the seventh generation of the Martell family to head this prestigious company, founded in 1715, was in England when the announcement was made to phase out the traditional Naval rum ration in 1970. This...
Category: Advertisement
Muschi, the Feline Storm Force Member, Taking Things Easy at the Grand Old Age of 13!
Muschi, the feline storm force member, taking things easy at the grand old age of 13!. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs