LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cairnsmore
Fishermen taken off THE COXSWAIN of Angle lifeboat was informed at 0007 on Friday December 1, 1978, that the 39ft fishing boat Cairnsmore, on passage to Scotland, was in trouble five miles south west of the Hats and Barrels. Maroons were...
Splash
The chief of operations has written to the Commissioners of Irish Lights thanking the keeper and crew of the Kish Bank lighthouse for their assistance during a five-hour search for a yacht in difficulties. Without their help it might have...
None (1)
Swimmer saved by lifeboat Coxswain n a remarkable service at Cromer Richard Davies, Coxswain of the station's all-weather lifeboat, has been awarded the RNLI's Thanks Inscribed on Vellum and the three man crew of the inshore D class...
March (1)
MARCH MEETING NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
Shortly before eight in the morning of the 23rd January, 1940, three motor fishing boats, each with three men on board, saw the British steamer Baltanglia and the Norwegian...
Category: Services
Premuda (1)
JANUARY 16TH. - MARGATE, RAMSGATE.
AND WALMER. KENT. At 9.30 P.M. a message was received at Margate from the Margate coastguard that an Italian steamer was sinking close to the North Goodwin Light-vessel. A strong N.E. wind...
H.M. Submarine Tuna and H.M. Examination Vessel Sedulous (1)
NOVEMBER 2ND. - BLYTH, AND TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 9.45 in the morning, the Blyth coastguard reported a ship ashore half a mile south of St. Mary’s Lighthouse. The sea was slight, with a light north-east wind blowing, but there was a...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 15th October, 1925.
Sir GODFREY BARING, fit., in the Chair.
Decided that the Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) Life-boat Station be permanently established, and that the Totland Bay Station be...
Category: Committee
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1909
Jan. 8.—Eight men promptly put off in a coble and saved three men from a small pleasure oobla who were overtaken by bad weather when out fishing off Berwick-on- Tweed.—Reward, il.
Jan. 11.—Six men put off in a coble during...
Category: Articles
The Long Tow
WHEN THE new Gorleston 44-foot steel life-boat Khami on 5th September, 1967» went to the aid of the m.v. Aureity, whose steering gear had broken down, no one knew then that the life-boat would end up by towing the auxiliary cutter...
Category: Services
Letters
First in the world I was most interested to read the article on Lionel Lukin in the summer number of THE LIFEBOAT. I see that the author is a member of the Hythe branch of the RNLI. If he has not already read the article on Lionel Lukin...
Category: Correspondence