LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Bobbie
Ramsey, Isle of Man - At 3.49 p.m.
on 3Oth April, 1967, news was received that the motor launch Bobbie was firing distress signals three to four miles east south east of Ramsey harbour. The lifeboat Thomas Corbett was...
The Motor Fishing Vessels Winifred and Lead Us
Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 8.20 a.m.
on 16th November, 1965, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessels Winifred and Lead Us were still at sea and conditions for entering harbour were...
'A stark reminder'
The 60th anniversary of one of the RNLI’s most tragic days was marked at Arbroath in October.
Six crewmen died when the lifeboat Robert Lindsay was struck by huge waves close to the harbour and capsized on 27 October 1953....
Category: Articles
A Story of a Coxswain
WRITTEN with a charm and delicacy comparable to that of Paul Gallico, The Morlo by L. A. Knight (John Murray, 12s. 6d.) is the delightful tale of Davy Tregaren, a life-boat coxswain, who is also a naturalist and farmer, and his affinity with...
Category: Articles
The Great Gale of 23rd November, 1938
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 142 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 20 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to February 28th, 1939 - 66,142 The Great Gale of 23rd November,...
Category: Services
A Steamer (11)
FEBRUARY 16TH. - FENIT, CO. KERRY.
A steamer had been torpedoed, and one of her boats with fifteen survivors in it was reported drifting two miles north of Loophead.
The life-boat could not find them, and...
Your shout
The Editor responds:
Great minds think alike Mr Dean! See page 46. And from this quarter, all seven versions of Compass are available online too at...
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The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1904
THE Blue Book recently issued by the Board of Trade furnishing abstracts of the shipping casualties which occurred on or near the coasts of the United Kingdom, from the 1st July, 1903, to the 30th June, 1904, is not less inter- esting than...
Category: Articles
Albas
High and dry on the Goodwins RAMSGATE HONORARY SECRETARY Was informed by Dover Straits Coastguard at 2025 on Thursday, September 11, 1975, that, following a number of reports of red flares sighted over the Goodwin Sands, Walmer lifeboat had...
Polar Prince and Montrose
Boulmer, Northumberland.—At about 10.55 P.M. on the 13th April, 1938, the coastguard telephoned that the steamer Montrose, of Stockholm, had reported having been in collision with a trawler five miles W.S.W. of Coquet...