LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Llaethliw, and Schooner John Stonard, and Brigantine Xanthus
Shortly after 4 o'clock on the afternoon of the 5th December, a signal of distress was seen flying from a schooner at anchor in the bay. The same Life-boat was launched, and proceeded to the vessel, which proved to be the Llaethliw, of...
Descendants of Lukin and Hillary
THE records of Life-boat families which have been appearing in The Lifeboat show how strong a part the influence of heredity plays in the manning of the Institution's boats. It is of interest, too, to record that the new Honorary...
Category: Articles
Kingston Turquoise and two Rafts
SURVIVORS ON RAFT Stromness, Orkneys. At 5 p.m. on 25th January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that they had received a Mayday from the trawler Kingston Turquoise of Hull approximate position fourteen miles northnorth-...
A Tow Through a Gale to Aberdeen
AT 4.16 on the afternoon of the 26th of October, 1953, the coastguard rang up the honorary secretary at Aberdeen.
He passed on a message, which he had had from a hotel at Muchalls, that a fishing boat was burning flares off...
Category: Services
John Nelson and Sea Gull
ORME'S HEAD.—On the afternoon of the 1st February the Life-boat Sunlight No. 1 was launched in response to signals of distress shown by vessels in the bay while a strong gale was blowing from W.N.W. with a rough sea. The boat took off...
Good Cheer and Other Cobles
Scarborough, Yorkshire. — While the local fishing fleet was at sea in the early morning of the 29th of November, 1950.
the wind increased from the north- north-west until by nine o'clock it was blowing a gale, causing a...
Girl Ann
Gampbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 9.5 on the morning of the 28th of February, 1955, the Southend coastguard tele- phoned that an ex-coastguardsman at Feorlin had reported that two ex- hausted men from the fishing boat Girl Ann, of Fraserburgh,...
Women and the Life-Boats
WE have received the following letter from the Honorary Secretary of the Acton and Chiswick Branch :— " The Institution often holds up to women the example of those heroic women on the Northumbrian coast who help to launch life-boats,...
Category: Articles
A Pontoon and a Launch
Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 12.45 on the afternoon of the 8th August, 1961, the coxswain informed the honor- ary secretary that Messrs. Wimpey had requested the help of the life-boat, as one of their pontoons two miles north of Hartlepool was...
A Dinghy and Paddy B
Hastings, Sussex. At 4.7 p.m. on 3151 July, 1965, the coastguard reported that a dinghy, in company with a cabin cruiser, was flying a distress signal and firing flares. The life-boat Fairlight was launched at 4.20 in a moderate...