LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cairn Glen
On the evening of the 23rd March a telephone message was received from Wick coastguard that the steamer Cairn Glen, of New- castle, was ashore at Huna. She was bound with a general cargo to New- castle, from Halifax. The motor life- boat...
Louisa
The fishing cobles belonging to the port went off to the fishing grounds early on the morning of the 19th March, in a light westerly breeze. During the forenoon the wind increased in force and the sea became very heavy, breaking across the...
Oberon
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—On the 28th August three men, with two small boys and a boatman, put out from Totland Bay in the motor launch Oberon to go fishing. The boat's engine broke down and she drifted on to Shingle Bank, which is in an...
Vellum for Trinity House Pilot
A Trinity House pilot at Alderney, Mr. Nicholas James Allen, has been accorded the thanks of the Institution incsribed on vellum for the rescue of 20 members of the crew of a Greek tanker.
At 11.30 on the morning of 23rd...
Category: Awards
Youngsters 'Bop the Night Away' at Glasgow's Twelfth Night Ball
Youngsters 'bop the night away' at Glasgow's Twelfth Night Ball. Photo Paul Reid. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
May
Launches 26 Lives rescued 25 The War ended on the last minute of the 8th of May
MAY 9TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. A dinghy attached to a naval motor launch was seen by the life-boat coxswain to capsize off Fishcombe Point,...
Category: Services
Contents
Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 51 Number 507 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOLL Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES RD MN1RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Headquarters: Royal National Lifeboat Institution, West Quay Road, Poole,...
Category: Contents
Jasper
CAISTER, NORFOLK. — On Sunday morning, the 17th January, the Lifeboat Coven t Garden arrived at Yarmouth Harbour, bringing four of the hands of the schooner Jasper, of Fowey, and the body of one of the crew, who had died from exposure while...
Jane Rowe
At 9.30 A.M.
on the 28th February the Coastguard reported that a ship was ashore at Bolberry Down. The crew of the Life- boat Alexander were at once assembled, and the boat was launched within a quarter of an hour. They...
Fishing Boats
The Life- boat Dunleary was launched at 6.5 P.M.
on the 30th January in response to a report, brought in by the mail-boat, that some of the fishing-boats belonging to Kingstown were in danger owing to the W.S.W. breeze...