LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Coxswain Thomas Langlands, of Whitby
The Life-boat Service has lost one of its most distinguished Coxswains by the death on 20th March last, after a painful illness, of Thomas Smith Langlands, of Whitby. He had a great career as a Life-boatman, a career extending over nearly...
Category: Obituaries
The Heroic Story of the Life-Boat Service
The Heroic Story of the Life-boat Service A book in the series " Pride of Britain" entitled The Heroic Story of the Life-Boat Service, published by Pitkin Pictorials Ltd., tells the story of the Life-boat Service from the...
Category: Advertisement
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Bronze Medal for Alderney Harbour Master
ON the evening of the 28th March, 1962, the motor vessel Ridunian, which was loaded with 150 tons of grit and gravel, sailed from Alderney for St. Peter Port, Guernsey. A fresh breeze was blowing from the south-south west, the weather was...
Category: Medals
Errata
The following account of a service was omitted in error from the December 1960 number of the Life-boat.
Boulmer, Northumberland. At 5.4 on the morning of the 2nd of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary...
Category: Articles
A Rescue In An Irish Curragh
ON the 2nd September, 1932, two men had gone out from Dooey, Co. Donegal, in a curragh, to lift lobster-pots. The wind increased, and a heavy sea swamped and capsized the curragh.
Their cries for help were heard, and two...
Category: Articles
A Sailing Dinghy (1)
Hastings, and Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 4.22 on the afternoon of the 13th of January, 1957, the Fairlight coast- guard telephoned that a sailing dinghy needed help four miles south of Bex- hill. At 4.37 the Hastings life-boat M.T.C. was...
Haminea
INJURED CAPTAIN At 7.30 a.m. on i2th May, 1964, the coxswain heard from the honorary secretary that the life-boat would be needed to bring ashore the captain of the motor vessel Haminea of London who was badly injured. At 8.30 the life-boat...
The Spanish Motor Fishing Vessel Redondela
LANGUAGE DIFFICULTIES Islay, Inner Hebrides. At about i a.m. on 24th March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Spanish motor fishing vessel Redondela of Vigo was aground on Rhuda-na-Leacon three miles south of...