LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Obituary
WE regret to record the death, at the end of last September, of the Rev. R.
W. PEKIIY CIRCUITT, Vicar of Brixham since 1900, and Honorary Secretary of the Brixham and Paignton Branch of the Institution for the past fifteen...
Category: Obituaries
Highland Leader
At 6.45 P.M. on the 16th November, the motor life-boat John and MaryMeik- lam of Gladswood put out in response to signals from the Cockle light-vessel. A strong N.E. breeze was blowing with a very heavy sea on the sands. The steam drifter...
A Strange Gift
THE Institution has received the anonymous gift of the caul of a baby born in 1832. The donor sent it under- standing that " sailors prize cauls, as they are supposed to provide immunity from drowning." The caul has been given to...
Category: Donations
Ribhinn Og
Shortly before midnight on the 14th February, the Tolsta post office telephoned that two local fishing boats were in distress off Tolsta Head, which is about twenty- two miles by sea north of Stornoway.
A strong west wind...
R.A.F. Crest for a Life-Boat
THE Royal Air Force has presented a silver and enamel R.A.F. crest to the Lerwick life-boat and it has been fitted in the after-shelter. With it came a message from the officer commanding the No. 18 Group: "The crest is sent in...
Category: Articles
Dorie
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At half past two in the afternoon of the 1st of August, 1949, an urgent message was received from the Shoeburyness police that a woman in a motor yacht was drifting into the boom. The life-boat Greater London, Civil...
Gwen
Tynemouth, Northumberland. — At 11.27 on the morning of the 7th of August, 1955, the Sunderland coast- guard telephoned that the Souter light- house had reported that a small boat could be seen drifting off Souter...
Raider
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 3.7 on the morning of the 6th of October, 1955, Wyke Regis coastguard rang up to say that a yacht with one man on board, at anchor off Castletown pier, in Portland harbour, was dragging and in danger of hitting Queen...
Assurity
Selsey, Sussex.—-The motor life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched at 12.30 A.M., on the 26th November, 1938, as flares had been seen some miles S.S.E.
A whole W.S.W. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea and rain. The...
Linda
Donaghadee, Co. Down. At noon on the 13th of July, 1958, the Orlock coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boat had capsized off Carrickfergus in Belfast Lough. At12.20 the life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson, on temporary duty at...