LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Halloween
HOPE COVE.—Intelligence having been received that a vessel was ashore at Sewer Mill Sands on the 18th January, the Alexandra Life-boat was launched at 8.30 A.M., and proceeded to her assistance during a strong S.E. wind and a heavy sea. She...
An Aeroplane (15)
SEPT. 9TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX, AND DUNGENESS, KENT. At 9.29 P.M .
the coastguard at Fairlight reported that an aeroplane had come down in the sea a mile to the east. The weather was clear and the sea was calm. At 9.35 the...
Life-Boat Charts for Yacht Clubs
The Institution will be glad to supply free to any yacht club a copy of the chart of life-boat stations round the British Isles which appears in the annual report. The chart is varnish- ed arid can be sent mounted on cardboard and holed and...
Category: Articles
Lochinvar
Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 8.40 on the evening of the 13th of March, 1956, the Southend coastguard rang up to say that the motor vessel Lochinvar, of Glasgow, which had a crew of fifteen, had wirelessed that she had struck the rocks at...
Life-Boat Museum at Whitby
A LIFE-BOAT museum was formally opened at Whitby on the 26th of July, 1958, by Lady Georgiana Starkey, daughter of Earl Howe, Chairman of the Committee of Management of the Institution. Whitby was the last station at which a pulling...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (1)
Port St. Mary, Port Erin, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.—At about 10.15 on the night of the 10th of June, 1948, the Ramsey coastguard telephoned the Port St. Mary, Port Erin, and Douglas life- boat stations that an aeroplane, with eight...
Readers' Letters and Information
Dear Editor Having been a Shoreline supporter for many years and now an Offshore member, I thought I would write in and air my views on lilos, rubber rings and inflatable dinghies, which are sold at seaside shops: can't we get these toys...
Category: Correspondence
AWARD-WINNING WRITER DONATES TO OBAN CREW
Freelance journalist Moira Kerr has donated £300 of her prize money to Oban RNLI, having scooped the title of ‘Diageo Journalist
of the Year’ in the annual Highlands and Islands Media Awards. Moira’s donation could cover the...
Category: Articles
Six Fishing Cobles
On the 6th December a strong gale of wind, accompanied by a heavy sea, came on suddenly, and six of the fishing- l cobles belonging to the port, each con- taining 3 men, were overtaken by the storm. On their perilous pgpition being observed,...
Cover Picture
The crew of St Peter Port, Guernsey, 52ft Arun class lifeboat Sir William Arnold who, on December 13, 1981, in winds gusting to hurricane force rescued 29 people from the Ecuadorian motor vessel Bonita (see page 77). It was a service for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs