LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Arbroath's Mersey Class Lifeboat Inchcape
Arbroath's Mersey class lifeboat Inchcape - seen here after her naming ceremony in 1994 - is a good example of the way in which a number of smaller legacies can be grouped together. 13 legacies, with an average value of £28.000 were... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Royal Air Force Machine
Montrose, Angus. — 14th October, 1937. A Royal Air Force machine had crashed in Lunan Bay and sunk. One man was lost. The other was rescued by a fishing boat.—Rewards, £9 12*. 6
Christmas Fayre
In November 1997, the Thurso branch again held their Christmas fayre in the Royal Hotel. The special guest of the event was Mr Santa Clause who arrived by car due to the lack of snow but did manage to bring his bag of goodies which went down... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Janet
FEB. 27TH. - THURSO, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
During the afternoon the life-boat coxswain, returning from fishing, picked up the motor fishing boat Janet, of Thurso, with her engine broken down, about nine miles north-west of the...
A Grateful German Skipper
IN The Lifeboat for March, 1923, appeared an account of the wreck of the Adolf Vinnen, a German five-masted sailing ship, which ran ashore near The Lizard on 9th February of that year, and of thegallant attemptstojcescue her crew made by the...
Category: Articles
Thirza
At 6.5 P.M. on the 17th January signals of distress were observed from a vessel on the Barber- Sands during a strong S.W.
breeze and heavy sea. The crew of the No, 1 Life-boat Govent Garden were assembled and the boat...
Allegro
PORT EYNON, GLAMORGANSHIRE. — During a strong S.W. gale and heavy sea, on the morning of the 25th February, a vessel was observed to bedrifting apparently in a helpless condition.
The crew of the Life-boat A Daughter's...
H.M. Trawler Marjory Hastie (1)
FEBRUARY 20TH. - TYNEMOUTH, AND CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 8.13 in the morning the honorary secretary at Tynemouth had a telephone call from the Port War Signal Station that one ofH.M. trawlers had struck a mine about...
Mi Amigo
TWO SAVED At 4.4. p.m. on I5th May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Mi Amiga, operating as the wireless transmitting station Radio Caroline, had broadcast a message that they had rescued two women...
A Sailing Dinghy (1)
A SAILING DINGHY in difficulties off Little Orme was sighted by Llandudno deputy launching authority and station mechanic at 1525 on April 27, 1974. The DLA immediately advised HM Coastguard and assembled the crew.
The wind...