LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Garson
The No. 1 Life-boat Covent Garden was also launched at 1 A.M. on the 18th November in reply to large flares which, bad been observed in the direction, of the North Scroby Sand, when the barge Qm-son, of Wisbeaeli, was discovered riding at...
Demaris
On the 26th January at 7.35 A.M the Gun- fleet Light-house commenced to fire guns signifying that a vessel was on the sands, and within ten minutes the Life- boat James Stevens No. 14 was on her way to help those on board. The Life- boat had...
Pansy
Stronsay, Orkneys - At 7.55 p.m.
on 6th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor fishing boat was ashore on Lashy Skerry, Calf of Eday. The life-boat The John Gellatly Hyndman slipped her...
Victorine, of Ostend
Early on the morning of the 13th January, the barque Victorine, of Ostend, struck on the rocks off.
Souter Point, near Whitburn. There was a heavy wind blowing S. by E., and a very high sea on. The Thomas Wilson life-boat...
Forager
, KENT. — The ketch Forager, of Portsmouth, from Seaham to Chichester, with coal, with a crew of four men, stranded near Kingsgate Castle on the 22nd February. A Coastguard boat proceeded to her assistance, and endeavoured to get her afloat,...
Fishing Boats (3)
BOULMER, CULLERCOATS, NORTH SUNDERLAND, SCARBOROUGH, and TYNEMOUTH.— On the 7th January a sudden gale sprung up accompanied by a high sea, and between 9.30 A.M. and 4.45 P.M. five Lifeboats —the Meliscent, stationed at Boulmer, the...
None (15)
JUNE 23RD. - TOBERMORY, HEBRIDES.
On the afternoon of the 23rd June the local doctor asked for the life-boat to convey a woman with acute appendicitis to Oban. A light N.W. wind was blowing and the sea was calm, but no...
New Inventions
THE FAREHAM LIFE-BOAT.—A novel description of life-boat, to which the above appellation is given by its designer, has been recently patented.
It is the invention of the Rev. E. L. BERTHON, M.A., of Fareham, and is...
Category: Articles
Two Yachts
A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...
Obituary: Derek Calderwood
Man of Grace dies Derek Calderwood, former honorary curator of the Grace Darling museum in Bamburgh and tireless fundraiser for the RNLI has died.
Derek, curator of the museum from 1984 until 1995, was responsible for the...
Category: Obituaries