LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Flossie
The Life-boat Richard and Sarah was launched on the morning of the 14th October, to the assistance of the fishing-boat Flossie, The Flossie had put off earlier in the morning, and soon afterwards a very heavy ground sea made. The occupant of...
Olna Firth
HOSPITAL CASE At ii a.m. on i3th March, 1966, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a man on board the motor vessel Olna Firth, of Newcastle, needed hospital treatment.
The life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 11...
Corrections
On page 307 of the December issue of THE LIFE-BOAT the heading, Littlestone-on- Sea, was missed from above the service beginning 'At 2.15 p.m. on llth August, 1967...'.
The New Quay, Cardiganshire, IRB service...
Category: Articles
Burry Port
Burry Port crew member Ryan Griffiths (right) had a hard time convincing fellow crew member Jeremy Williams that they had shared the workload equally after the crew had taken part in a low-water exercise along the very muddy Welsh coast. {In... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Baron Elcho
Campbeltown, Argyllshire. — During the morning of the 28th of June, 1952, a radio telegram was received from the S.S. Baron Elcho, of Ardrossan, that she was making for Campbeltown to land a very badly injured seaman.
She...
Radio Caroline
Ramsey, Isle of Man - At n p.m. on 22nd March, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that they had intercepted a message from the wireless transmitting station Radio Caroline in Ramsey Bay that there was an injured man on...
Notes of the Quarter By the Editor
THE RNLI'S ACCOUNTS for 1975 are not complete at the time of going to press, hut it is certain that expenditure will have exceeded income. In other words there w i l l he a deficit which will have to he made good.
The...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution from the 1st April to the 30th Sept. 1878
PALLING.—On the 6th April, at about 7 A.M., the s. s. Spartan, of Botterdam, bound from Hamburg to London, with a cargo of sugar, grounded on the Has- borough Sands during a dense fog. On the following morning, the fog having cleared, the...
Category: Services
The Motor Fleet
THE review of the Institution's Motor Fleet, which it is usual to make at this time of the year, reveals the fact that we are feeling our way slowly, but surely, in the use of Life-boats installed with motor power. Ten years ago there...
Category: Articles
A Dinghy
Dinghy capsize A LIFEBOATMAN, John Strachan, who is skipper of a ferry running from Largs Pier to Cumbrae, and Matthew Ramsay and Donald McMillan, skippers of fishing vessels Sea Nymph and Mhari Bhan, who were mooring their boats at Largs...