LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Lenten Vow
THE life-boat service has benefited by £5 as the result of a vow by two army officers on Salisbury Plain. The}7 bound themselves to "a particular Lenten abstention," and the penalty for failure was to be a cheque for £2...
Category: Donations
Golf Competitions
AN appeal was again made at the beginning of 1934 to the principal golf clubs in Great Britain and Ireland to hold competitions in aid of the life- boat service, for which the Institution would present silver and enamel spoons as prizes. As...
Category: Articles
Pioneer
Flamborough, Yorkshire.—During the morning of the 16th January a moderate S.S.E. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea, sleet and rain. A fisherman reported that the local fishing coble Pioneer was at sea, and the No. 1 motor life-boat...
Coxswain Adam Mcleod, Thurso
Coxswain Adam McLeod, of Thurso, who died in June of this year, had then been coxswain for two years, and had previously been second coxswain for thirteen years. During those fifteen years the Thurso life-boats had rescued 117 lives. When...
Category: Obituaries
Bendilow
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—The motor life-boat Langham was launched at 11.22 A.M. on the 22nd May, as information had been received through the coastguard that the yacht Bendilow, of Portsmouth, was in a dangerous position near Sandown pier....
Fishing Cobles
While the Sunderland Motor Life-boat Henry Vernon was - out on exercise on the afternoon of 30th March, signals of dis- tress were seen from the fishing coble D.C.M., of Sunderland, about one and a half miles east of Roker. On reaching the...
Maggie
On the morning of the 4th October news was received from the coastguard that the motor fishing boat Maggies, of Inverness, was at sea somewhere near Portmahomack and was thought to be in distress. A strong N.E. breeze was blowing, with a...
Seamew
Ramsey, We of Man.—At 8.40 in the evening of the 8th of September, 1948, the coastguard reported that the yacht Seamew, of Ramsey, with a crew of two, had left for Douglas that afternoon and had not arrived. The motor life- boat Lady...
Bluebell
Dunbar, Haddingtonshire. — Shortly before 6 o'clock in the morning of the 16th of September, 1948, a message was received from the coastguard that the motor fishing boat Bluebell, of Port Seton, had broken down nine miles to the...
None (4)
On 30th July, 1965, at 9.40 a.m. the local doctor requested the use of the lifeboat to take a man who had been seriously injured in a motor cycle accident to hospital. As no other boats were available, the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson put...