LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Wave
SUTTON, LINCOLNSHIRE.—On the 4thJuly the Life-boat Caroline proceeded to the assistance of the yawl Wave, of Goole, which was showing a signal of distress.
On arriving alongside it was found that her foretopmast and...
A Fishing Boat
Fishing party DUNGENESS LIFEBOAT, the 37ft 6in Rother Alice Upjohn, had launched on exercise on Thursday March 8 and was close to her station when, at 1700, two local fishermen on shore were seen waving. Second Coxswain Peter Thomas, in...
Sibiria (1)
A Magnificent Group of Services.
19th~21st November, 1916.
SELDOM, if ever, has there been concentrated within three days of Life-boat work a more splendid series of achievements than those which are...
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Weathering St Jude
As we turned back our clocks at the end of October, many of us braced ourselves for the arrival of St Jude: a storm named after the patron saint of desperate cases
It was expected to be the...
Category: Articles
New Ways of Raising Money
Miss J. McADAM of Monessie, Dalvreck, Crieff, has compiled instructions for a Montrose reel dedicated to the late Chairman of the Scottish Life-boat Council, the Duke of Montrose. All royalties from the sale of the music and the instructions...
Category: Donations
Non-Members of the Yla Are Liable to Capsize at Sea So Are Members of the Yla But at Least When They Go Over Yla Members Have the Consolation of Knowing They
Non-members of the YLA are liable to capsize at sea. So are members of the YLA. But at least, when they go over, YLA members have the consolation of knowing they can await rescue by the R.N.L.I, with a clear... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
M.F.V. Dumnonia
PORTPATRICK, January 8, 1988: with her propeller fouled by her fishing gear, MFV Dumnonia was drifting on to a lee shore, four miles away in a force 8 gale and in darkness. Portpatrick's 48ft 6in Solent class lifeboat Douglas Carrie...
St. Stephen (1)
THREE LIFE-BOATS TO A TRAWLER'S HELP Peterhead, and Fraserburgh, Aberdeen- shire, and Buckie, Banffshire.—At 3.5 in the afternoon of Jaimavy 6th, 1947, the coastguard telephoned to the Peterhead life-boat that the steam trawler St....
Nell Gwyn
Sails jammed A MAYDAY MESSAGE from the yacht, Nell Gwyn, in distress off Amlwch, was received by Holyhead coastguard on the morning of Monday October 8, 1984.
At 1127 Moelfre's lifeboat, the 37ft 6in Rother class,...