LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Alpine
At 10.15 A.M.
on the 1st December the coastguard at Ballycastle reported that the s.s. Apine, of Glasgow, a collier, bound empty from Londonderry to Glasgow, was dragging her anchors and drifting towards the reefs at...
Sarah Latham
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—At 4.30 in the morning of the 19th of July, 1948, the Castletown coastguard telephoned that the keeper at Langness Point Light had reported red flares from a small vessel, and the motor life-boat Sir Heath...
The S.S. Loke
Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire. — At 8.20 in the morning of the 9th of December, 1948, the Hoylake coast- guard reported a message from the Southport police that a vessel appeared to be aground off Ainsdale beach, and at 9.10 that the...
Lady Isle
BROKEN FUEL PUMP At 3.57 p.m. on i8th April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the coaster Lady Isle of Troon had broken her fuel pump seven miles west of Sanda Island. At 4.15 the lifeboat City of Glasgow II...
Ann of Lonan
Douglas, Isle of Man.—At 12.40 in the early morning of the 4th of February, 1950, the coastguard reported that dis- tress flares were being burned off Douglas Bay. At one o'clock the life- boat Millie Walton was launched in a heavy sea...
Kalisto
Dangerous gas on blazing fishing vesselTynemouth's Arun class lifeboat George and Olive Turner was called to the aid of the fishing vessel Kalisto which caught fire on 15 September 1990.
The two crew had jumped...
Awards to Honorary Workers
Mr. Loris N. PARKEK has been elected an Honorary Life Governor of the Institution in recognition of his generous and valuable services to the Life-boat Cause in writing for the Institution the Life-boat play " Their Business in Great...
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Past and Present
75 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT May 1916 Life-boat crews on the Yorkshire Coast From time immemorial it has been the custom of the Life-boat Service not to maintain fixed crews for Lifeboats, but to draw volunteers as required...
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