LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mrs Patsy Milligan,
Mrs Patsy Milligan, a staunch member of Portpatrick branch. Mrs Milligan was treasurer of the branch from 1973 although her connections with the RNLI began at her birth as her father and brother were members of the lifeboat crew. She also...
Category: Obituaries
A Vessel (6)
APRIL 5TH. - ANSTRUTHER, FIFESHIRE.
A vessel was reported to be in difficulties, with a sloop standing by, but in the gale which was blowing, with a very heavy sea running, it was impossible for the sloop to pass a rope and...
Emergency Evacuation
Margate’s all-weather lifeboat, the sturdy 12m Mersey class Leonard Kent, was dwarfed by the vessel to which she was called out on 2 December.
A Russian cargo ship was anchored, waiting for better weather to continue her...
Category: Articles
Fishing Cobles
STAITHES, YORKSHIRE.—On the morning of the 7th December the weather, which had been wild during the night, calmed down, and at 9 o'clock the fishingcobles proceeded to sea. About 10 o'clock, however, the wind suddenly rose and veered...
A New Life-Boat Fleet
Early in the war the building of motor life-boats almost ceased, because of the demands on the shipyards made by the fighting services. During the five years and eight months of war, 17 new life-boats were sent to the coast. In normal years...
Category: Articles
Michiels Loos, of Antwerp
On the 22nd October, during foggy weather, the ship Miahiels Loos, of Antwerp, was stranded abreast of No. 35 Martello Tower. The Solicitors' and Proctors' life-boat Storm Sprite, stationed at Winchelsea, went off and remained by the...
Lily
The No. 2 Life- boat, British Workman, left this station on the 24th October in stormy weather, and boarded the Lily, a barque laden with timber, which was stranded on the Has- borongh Sands; and, finding her to be deserted, took possession,...
Aden, of Liverpool
he Florence Life-boat of this station proceeded through heavy squalls to the assistance of the schooner Aden, ...
An Aeroplane (66)
AUGUST 23RD. - PORT ERIN, ISLE OF MAN At 11.35 A.M. information was received through the police that a British aeroplane was in the sea off Dalby. A moderate westerly breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. At 12.10 P.M. the motor life-boat...
Joanne
Largs, Ayrshire. Letters of appreciation were sent by the Institution to the three members of the crew of the Largs inshore rescue boat who rescued four people and a dog from a motor launch on yth July, 1964. At 10.35 a-m- on that date the...