LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Erin
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands.—At 10.10 on the night of the 17th of August, 1956, a message was received that the motor boat Erin was overdue from a fishing expedition. The life-boat Guy and Clare Hunter was launched at...
Signature
Tragedy as five are swept overboard from charter ya cht A short but difficult search for survivors from a yacht which had been knocked down in the entrance to Tynemouth harbour has earned three of Tynemouth lifeboat's crew letters of...
Your Letters
Far and wide I thought you might be interested in the enclosed photograph which was sent to me by a friend who lives in Edmondton, Canada.
She and her husband were driving along a highway when she spotted an RNLI...
Category: Correspondence
Advance
The schooner Advance, of Plymouth, when bound from Hull to Teignmouth with a cargo of coal, was wrecked on the Scroby Sands on the 23rd February. Immediately on receipt of information of the casualty the crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Covent...
The Winters of Newhaven
WHEN Second Coxswain Stanley Winter retired from the service in 1954 a family record of 100 years' association with the Newhaven life-boat was inter- rupted. In 1854 Second Coxswain Winter's grandfather became a member of the crew...
Category: Articles
The Converted Ship's Life-Boat Waratah
FIREMEN HELPED At 7.35 a.m. on I3th September, 1964, while the life-boat coxswain was fishing at sea, he saw the converted ship's lifeboat Waratah burning red flares just south of Peninnis Head. He immediately gave help and succeeded in...
THE ICING ON THE CAKE
In October, the Largs Lifeboat Fundraising Branch welcomed outgoing RNLI Chair, Charles Hunter-Pease, to speak at their annual lunch where he was presented with a special cake decorated with a model of the Largs lifeboat to mark his...
Category: Articles
Virgin
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. — At 11.30 in the night of the 15th of Septem- ber, 1949, the parents of a fisherman and two boys reported that their sons had put out in the motor fishing boat Virgin, of Castlebay, but were now overdue. The...
Dorothy Lambert
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At 1.8 early on the morning of the 3rd of October, 1954, the coastguard tele- phoned that the trawler Dorothy Lambert, of Fleetwood, had wirelessed that she had gone aground three miles north-west-by-west of...
Provider A and Lead Us
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 12.45 on the afternoon of the 10th of April, 1951, fishermen told the coxswain that there was a heavy swell on the harbour bar, and the fishing vessels Provider A and Lead Us could be seen making for Whitby. At 1.10 the...