LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Boats (1)
— The motor Life-boat Alexander Tulloch was launched at 10.15 A.M. on the 17th March to the assistance of the Peter- head fishing fleet. The morning had been very fine, but at ten o'clock a strong gale suddenly sprang up from the N.E.,...
A Boy's Legacy
LAST December the Institution received from the Honorary Secretary of its Branch at Warminster, Wiltshire, a cheque for £16 as a legacy from the late Hugo Harbord Terchman. She wrote : " He was a young man just going to Oxford, who...
Category: Donations
A Rowing Boat
Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 3.10 P.M. on the 21st November, 1938, news was received from Quarff Post Office that a young man had gone out fishing in a small rowing boat in the forenoon and had not returned. A moderate...
Invermore, of Dublin
Cloughey, Donaghadee, and Newcastle, Co. Down, and Port St. Mary, Port Erin, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.—On the 19th November, 1937, the disabled schooner Invermore, of Dublin, was picked up by the Cloughey and Donaghadee life-boats....
Isabella (1)
Filey, Yorkshire.—At 1.45 on the after- noon of the 2nd of October. 1952, the life-boat coxswain reported that a local man had put off in his fishing coble Isabella to attend to his crab-pots in bad weather. The weather was deteri- orating...
Fishing Boats (1)
Arbroath, Angus.—About 11.45 on the morning of the 27th of October, 1952, the coastguard reported that fishing boats were still at sea in deteriorating weather and that conditions at the harbour bar were dangerous. The life-boat Robert...
The S.S. William
Workington, Cumberland. — On the 23rd of September, 1954, the S.S.
William, of Drammen, Norway, arrived off Workington and wirelessed that she had a sick man on board. She asked for a doctor, and at 4.15 the life-boat...
A Fishing Boat
FLARE SEEN Helvick Head, Co. Waterford. At 2.30 p.m. on 2yth December, 1964, the honorary secretary saw a flare being burnt from a small fishing boat at the approach to Dungarvan harbour. There was a strong north-easterly wind and a rough...
Michael Joseph
Alun Richards ENNAL'S POINT • 'Those heroic volunteers who man the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's boats spring vividly to life in Ennal's Point.... the bravery of the lifeboatmen has been much neglected in fiction and...
Category: Advertisement
Cilla
Weymouth, Dorset-At 11.20 a.m.
on 5th June, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the cabin cruiser Cilla with a one-man crew had broken down nine miles from Portland Bill. The lifeboat Frank Spiller...