LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dixy Porr
Stornoway, Hebrides. At 1.30 on the -afternoon of the 1st of September, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was stranded near the Shiant Isles. The life-boat James and Margaret Boyd put out at 1.50 in a calm...
Fiona
St. Helier, Jersey.—At six o'clock on the evening of the 28th of April, 1953, the harbourmaster rang up to say that the owner of the local fishing boat Fiona had reported that the boat was overdue with a crew of two, and that he felt...
New Ways of Raising Money
Almost 20 years after Ms aircraft had been shot down in the Channel, on I2th June, 1944, a former German prisoner- of-war wrote to the British naval at- tache in Bonn to trace the commanding officer of the British escort vessel which had...
Category: Donations
A Dinghy
Two men on sandbank IT WAS at about 7.45 p.m. on August 4, 1973, that Mr J. R. Stephen, a Trinity House pilot, was informed by Mr Colin Bull that Mr Bull's brother and another man were adrift in a 7' dinghy off the oil jetty of...
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—Early on the morning of the 7th April, 1866, signals of distress were seen by the beachmen in the direction of the Cockle Sand. The weather was hazy, with a strong breeze blowing from E.N.E.
The...
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
The Steamers Oxshott, Deerwood, Gallois, Taara, Aberhill and Paddy Hendly (2)
GOLD AND SILVER MEDAL SERVICES AT CROMER AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON AUGUST 6TH. - 7TH. - CROMER, GT.
YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, AND SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. On the night of the 5th of August,, 1941, a...
H.M.S. Wanderer
OCT. 24TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. - At, 12.28 P.M a message was received from the senior naval officer through the Gorleston coastguard that H.M.S. Wanderer expected to arrive in Yarmouth Roads at 1.30 P.M. and that a...
Wexford Station
THE Coxswain has received the following letter from one of the men rescued from the wreck of the William and Michael:— SKULMARTIN LT. SHIP, BALLYWALTER, Go. DOWN.
19th July '17.
DEAR MR. WICKHAM &...
Category: Correspondence
Boree (1)
Cromer and Wells, Norfolk.—On the 26th March the French steamer Boree, of Caen, and the Spanish steamer Aizkarai Mendi, were in collision off East Dudgeon light-vessel. A moderate E.N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The weather...