LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Small Fishing Boat
— In the afternoon of 1st November it was found necessary to launch the Life-boat to go to the assistance of a small fishing-boat which had put off earlier in the day with a crew of three men. A very heavy ground sea had set in, and the sea...
Pentille
TRAWLER TOWED AFTER COLLISION WITH SUBMARINE Plymouth, Devon. At 9.29 on the morning of the 14th December, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a trawler was sinking two miles west of Rame Head, and at 9.43 the life-boat...
Stella
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 11.47 on the morning of the 3rd of October, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Stella of Whit- stable was in difficulties three miles south of Clacton pier. One of her crew had been...
Gleaner
Lerwick, Shetlands. At 9.45 on the evening of the 4th of April, 1960, the assistant honorary secretary told the honorary secretary that he had heard the motor fishing vessel Gleaner of Fraserburgh wirelessing for help as she was ashore at...
A Fishing Boat
Barrow, Lancashire. At 3.35 on the afternoon of the 25th of June, 1960, the coastguard told the coxswain that the tanker Kellia had reported that there was a small fishing boat alongside her with one man on board who had broken an arm...
Border Falcon
Penlee, Cornwall. At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 12th December, 1961, the port medical officer informed the honorary secretary that a seventeen- year-old apprentice on board the tanker Border Falcon of Newcastle was ill and...
Mary, Duchess of Montrose
MARY, DUCHESS OF MONTROSE, who died in February, 1957, had been made an Honorary Life Governor of the Institution, the highest award conferred on an honorary worker, in 1955. She had been president of the Arran Ladies' Life-boat Guild...
Category: Obituaries
Vieux Copains
Driven ashore THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Stornoway lifeboat station received a message from HM Coastguard at 0540 on Sunday, August 28, saying that a small foreign vessel, Vieux Copains, had gone aground at Battery Point at Stornoway Bay, one...
None (1)
CLIFF RESCUE Life-boats are often called to rescue people trapped in difficult situations, and on 28th February, 1971, an anticipatory message was received at 3.9 p.m. from the Coastguard reporting that a cliff climber was in difficulties at...
An Aeroplane (66)
AUGUST 7TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
At 5.20 in the morning the lifeboat watchman saw a large bombing aeroplane come down on fire near the gate vessel.The sea was ablaze with burning petrol. The coxswain rang up the Royal...