LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Advanced search
44931 search results for '1886%3A the Wreck of the Mexico By Frank Kilroy'
List view Card view

Lochgoil

Date: April 1940

Volume: 31

Issue: 341

Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 6 P.M. on the 6th October, 1939, the coastguard informed the life-boat station that the motor vessel Lochgoil, of London, had been sunk by enemy action five miles S. by W. of the Scarweather Lightship. She was a...

Edwin Distin

Date: Autumn 1973

Volume: 43

Issue: 446

Edwin Distin The death occurred in October of ex- Coxswain Edwin Distin, aged 82, the last surviving member of the crew of the Salcombe, Devon, lifeboat disaster of 1916. He held the RNLI's silver and bronze medals. His son, Coxswain...

Category: Obituaries

Bretton Hall

Date: February 1886

Volume: 13

Issue: 139

BBIXHAM, SOUTH DEVON.—Bockets were seen and signal guns heard during a S.E.

wind and a very heavy sea on the evening of Sunday the 6th December. The Lifeboat Brian Sates was launched at about 7 o'clock, pulled round...

Trustful and a Dinghy

Date: September 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 413

ENGINE FAILURE T At 4.53 p.m. on igth April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two people were trying to row ashore from a motor fishing vessel anchored five miles south-south-east of Hastings. The honorary secretary...

Jean Stephen

Date: June 1958

Volume: 35

Issue: 384

Wick, Caithness-shire. At 9.50 on the night of the 18th of January, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel was ashore in Sinclair Bay. At 10.15 the life-boat City of Edinburgh was launched in a moderate...

Jubilee Review (Continuedfrom Page 55)

Date: Summer 1977

Volume: 45

Issue: 461

(continuedfrom page 55) training ships Royalist, Sir Winston Churchill and Malcolm Miller, with merchant ships to the south and naval ships stretching away into the distant east. All morning a steady stream was sailing past Calshot as little...

Category: Articles

H.M.S. Musketeer and Saucy

Date: Autumn 1950

Volume: 33

Issue: 356

Barrow, Lancashire.—At three o'clock in the morning, on the 26th of Septem- ber, 1950, a message was received from the Walney coastguard, that H.M.S.

Musketeer, which was being towed to Liverpool by the tug Saucy, for a...

Posthumous Awards

Date: October 1971

Volume: 42

Issue: 437

Early this year at a private ceremony held at Longhope, Orkney, posthumous awards for gallantry were presented by The Duke of Atholl, Convenor of the Scottish Life-boat Council, and a member of the Committee of Management of the Royal...

Category: Awards

Letters

Date: October 1972

Volume: 42

Issue: 441

THE JOURNAL 0 I feel that I cannot let the July edition of your journal pass without comment. I would have thought that the object of a publication named THE LIFE-BOAT would have been to give ne vs on developments, e.g. the article by Lieut....

Category: Correspondence

Surf and turf

Date: Winter 2010

Volume: 61

Issue: 594

On 4 August 2010, Sue went to dinner at a house rented by some visitors. She says: ‘As I walked back home about 1am along a narrow track, I turned my ankle and heard the bone snap. I had to inch my way up the steep hill back to the house,...

Category: Articles