LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Your Letters
Your Letters Continued Figurehead history Sir - During the early years of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's existence, hundreds, if not thousands, of sailing ships were lost around the coast of the United Kingdom and many daring...
Category: Correspondence
Flamingo, of Stavanger (1)
Longhope, Orkneys, and Wick, Caithness-shire - At 11.27 a.m. on 26th January, 1967, it was learned that a vessel was transmitting a Mayday call off Pentland Skerries. The Longhope life-boat T.G.B. was launched at 11.45 in a strong east by...
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UGHTVESSEL'S MASTER TAKEN ASHORE TO HOSPITAL Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
At 7.57 on the evening of the 3rd November, 1962, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that the master of the Smith's Knoll...
Twenty Best Branches: A Correction
In the last issue of The Lifeboat, in the article on the twenty Branches with the highest collections in the year 1929- 30, Clacton-on-Sea was given, as having been sixteenth in the previous year, but as having fallen out of the first...
Category: Branches
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NOV. 23RD. - STROMNESS, ORKNEYS.
A red glare or flares had been seen low in the sky and it had been thought that a vessel was on fire but the life-boat could find no vessel needing her help, and trawlers to whom she spoke...
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Stassa, of Panama (1)
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides, and Life-boat 70-002 - At 5.20 a.m. on 15th July, 1966, a vessel was reported ashore at Renish point off Rodel. The life-boat The James and Margaret Boyd left her moorings at 5.50 in a moderate variable wind and a...
Lieut.-Col. H. W. Madoc, Isle of Man
LiEUT.-CoL. HENRY WILLIAM MADOC, C.B.E., M.V.O., who died on 7th January at the age of sixty-eight, was for twenty-three years the honorary secretary of the life-boat station at Douglas, Isle of Man. It was only in August of last year that...
Category: Obituaries
The Motor Ferry Boat Colonsay
Islay, Inner Hebrides.—At ten o'clock on the night of the 12th of June, 1952, a resident of Bonahaven reported that a motor boat had run ashore half a mile from Bonahaven, and at 10.20 the life-boat Charlotte Elizabeth left her moorings....
Welsh Lady
Barmouth, Merionethshire - At 6.50 p.m. on 22nd June, 1968, the coastguard reported that the fishing boat Welsh Lady with five people on board was in difficulties one and a half miles north of Barmouth. The life-boat The Chieftain was...