LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letitia
On the 16th August the 14,000-ton passenger and cargo steamer Letitia, of Glasgow, bound from Montreal to Glasgow, ran ashore on the South Briggs Rocks in a dense fog. In addition to cargo, she was carrying 300 passengers and 200 crew....
H.M. Motor Torpedo Boat 2007
MAY 22ND. - ABERDEEN, AND TORRY LIFE-SAVING APPARATUS. At 5.26 in the afternoon the harbour master reported that H.M. motor torpedo boat 2007 had stranded one hundred and fifty yards east of the old south breakwater. A north-easterly wind...
Havkvern
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 10.14 on the night of the 31st of May, 1956, the Spurn Point coastguard reported thatthe Norwegian trawler Havkvern had sent a message that she would be off Spurn lightvessel about three o'clock the next morning and...
The Humber Lightvessel
Humber, Yorkshire. At 10.30 on the morning of the 20th of February, 1961, the coxswain superintendent was asked by the Trinity House depot at Great Yarmouth to land an injured man from the Humber lightvessel. When the life- boat City of...
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Howth, Co. Dublin. On the morning of the 8th December, 1961, the Baily lighthouse keeper informed the honor- ary secretary that an elderly man on Lambay Island, who had recently under- gone an operation, was in urgent need of hospital...
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SICK MAN TAKEN FROM ISLAND Islay, Inner Hebrides. At 11.50 on the morning of the 18th March, 1963, the medical officer for the Isle of Colonsay informed the honorary secretary that he had a patient suffering from a gastric perforation...
The S.S. Cardiganbrook
Whitby, Yorkshire. At 5.24 p.m. on I3th August, 1965, news came that the S.S. Cardiganbrook had radioed for a doctor to meet her off Whitby as a man had been injured. The steamer's estimated arrival time at Whitby was 6.20 and at six...
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Tynemouth, Northumberland.—At 3.5 on the afternoon of the 21st of Feb- ruary, 1954, the coastguard reported that a man was in the sea in French- man Bay, about one and three-quarter miles south of the Tyne. At 4.14 the life-boat Tynesider...
FLASH FICTION
Instead of beating yourself up about not writing that novel, tell a shorter story with the help of RNLI Helm and Writer Eleanor Hooker. You might even get published ...
Flash fiction has one rule: stick to the word count....
Category: Articles
S.S. Empire Clansman, of Grangemouth
JANUARY 19TH. - ANSTRUTHER, FIFESHIRE.
At 12.3 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that a large vessel was ashore about one mile south of South Carr.
A north-west gale was blowing, with a very rough...