LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Oliver Lloyd and Turtle Dove
On the morn- ing of the 6th January the Manchester life- boat, the John Stuart, went off and succeeded in rescuing the crew of 3 men from the sloop Oliver Lloyd, of Cardigan, and 3 men from the smack Turtle Dove, of Aberystwith, which had...
Gwendoline
APRIL 3RD. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
A message was received from the son of the life-boat coxswain, Dumble, that his father and his father’s partner were out in their crab-boat Gwendoline off West Runton, attending to their...
R.N.L.I.'s Management Review
R.N.L.I.'s Management Review THE COMMITTEE of Management of the Institution decided last year to invite P.A. Management Consultants to make a detailed review and examination (THE LIFE-BOAT, January, 1971) of the organisation and...
Category: Committee
Coxswain James Chisholm, of St. Andrews, Fifeshire
James Chisholm, ex-Coxswain of St.
Andrews, died on the 14th March last, at the age of 81. He had served as Second Coxswain from 1887 until 1892, and as Coxswain from 1892 until 1920, when he retired at the age of 71, and...
Category: Obituaries
James Lay
The steam trawler James Lay, of London, with a crew of fourteen on board, bound for Hull, laden with fish, grounded on Filey Brigg at about 8 A.M. on the 12th January in a thick fog. The sea was smooth. Cobles endeavoured to refloat the...
Der Zehnte Juni
STONEHAVEN.—The barge Der Zehnte Juni, of South Shields, bound from Sunderland for Aberdeen, with a cargo of coal, experienced a good deal of stormy weather on her voyage, and on the 15th March, she was labouring heavily in the teeth of a...
A Small Boat (1)
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—During the afternoon of the 9th September, 1938, a small boat carrying two men and a seven-year-old girl capsized about three-quarters of a mile off Shoreham beach. A moderate northerly breeze was blowing, with a...
Miss Torbay
On the night of the 13th August the coast watcher at Babbacombe reported that a speed-boat was in difficulties, close to the shore, between Babbacombe and Anstey's Cove, Torquay. The east wind was very right, but a very strong easterly...
A Motor Dinghy From Wishbone
On the afternoon of the 20th July the motor life-boat Hearts of Oak, when off Sconce Point on her return to Yarmouth from exercise off Milford, saw a motor dinghy from the yacht Wishbone drift- ing rapidly towards Shingle...
B.P. Marketer
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lanes.—At 7.10 on the evening of the 18th of April, 1957, a Preston firm of shipping agents telephoned to say they had received a call from the master of the tanker B.P. Marketer, of London, reporting that a member...