LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Falco
KILDONAN, ISLE or ARRAN.—The barque Falco, of Stockholm, was observed to go ashore in a dangerous position on the Carline rocks during a N.W. gale and a heavy sea, with snow showers, on the 7th December. The Life-boat Emily Dewar was...
THIEVES to SHAME
After a charity box containing up to about £20 had been stolen from the lounge bar of the City of London public house, Gravesend, Kent, a 'mystery' women put the thieves to shame when she walked in and handed the landlord a...
Category: Articles
Ailsa Lady
Girvan, Ayrshire - At 11 a.m. on 4th November, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the lighthouse tender, taking a relief keeper to the Ailsa Craig lighthouse, was in difficulties. At 11.20 the lifeboat James and...
Moss Rose
Flamborough, Yorkshire. At 11.40 a.m. on 2Oth October, 1965, the coastguard told the coxswain that the fishing coble Moss Rose was out in conditions likely to deteriorate. The life-boat Friendly Forester was launched in a strong...
Eilean Mo Grhidh
Norman Salvesen was involved in a less hazardous, but nonetheless demanding, tow on 7 April this year when she successfully brought the 450-ton cargo vessel Eilean Mo Grhidh to safety after her engines had failed and the tide was sweeping...
Letter from a Norwegian Girl
A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD Norwegian girl, who read an article about the Life-boat Service in the March number of English Illustrated, has written to say she wants to know more about the Service and hopes she will find a girl pen-friend interested...
Category: Correspondence
Janice
Swanage, Dorset.—At 12.52 on the afternoon of the 25th of April, 1957, the St. Albans Head coastguard tele- phoned that a yacht with her sails blown away was drifting six and a half miles south-by-east of Durlston Head.
The...
Nora
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 2.51 on the afternoon of the 15th of August, 1957.
the watchman on the east pier reported that a yacht about two miles from the Quern buoy was signalling for help. She could apparently make no...
Finbar
Baltimore, Co. Cork. On the 6th of April, 1958, the fishing boat Finbar of Skibbereen, on passage from Baltimore to Clonakilty, broke down with engine trouble just outside Baltimore harbour.
She was drifting helplessly...
Island Commodore
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 12.38 on the afternoon of the 10th of September, 1954, the motor vessel Island Commo- dore, of London, bound for Cherbourg with thirty-seven people on board, wire- lessed the life-boat station that her steering...