LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Coxswain Greig, of Stromness
Coxswain Robert Greig, of Stromness, in the Orkneys, died on 23rd March at the age of eighty-three. At the age of ten he went to Edinburgh, and became assistant to his uncle, who was a book- seller. After two years of bookselling he went to...
Category: Obituaries
Golden Eagle
Whltehills, Banffshlre.—At 4.55 on the afternoon of the 5th of June, 1956, the life-boat's second coxswain report- ed that he had seen a fishing vessel some three miles from Whitebills apparently out of control and drifting to the shore...
Arnold
On the 15th January intelligence having been received that a vessel had stranded at Kirkton Head, the Life-boat was launched at 9.20 A.M., and sailed to the vessel which was reached about 9.45.
A gale of wind was blowing...
Bookshelf
The Shoreham Harbour Lifeboats by A. K. Oliver and J. C. Harrison The Shoreham Harbour Lifeboats was first compiled by Anthony Oliver, now the RNLI's deputy head of fundraising and marketing, nearly 30 years ago but the station's...
Category: Articles
Bacchus
MEVASISSBT, OOBHWAM,.—On the 1st September the smaek Bacchus, of Nantes, which had been towed from Buthleven to Charlestown in ballast, and had anchored in Oharlestown Bay, was in great danger owing to the heavy gale which had sprung up from...
Usko
1 It was reported at about 6.30 A,M. on the 27th November that a vessel was ashore on the Goodwin Sands.
A fresh W.N.W. breeze was blowing at the time. The Life-boat Civil Service No. 4 at once put off, and found the...
Fishing Boats (6)
Filey, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 8th of December, 1954, the weather worsened while local fishing cobles were at sea, and at eleven o'clock the life-boat The Isa and Penryn Milsted was launched in a flooding tide with the bowman in...
Faraway
On the 13th of July, 1952, the Mar- gate life-boat went to the help of a small yacht ashore on Margate sands, and the assistant mechanic waded through the surf to bring two men off the yacht.—Rewards, The thanks of the Institution inscribed...
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HELP FOR SICK CHILD Galway Bay. At 6.30 a.m. on nth July, 1964, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that the local doctor needed the life-boat's help to transfer a sick child from the Aran Isles to the mainland as no other suitable...
Fishing Cobles
ESCORT FOR NINE COBLES Filey, Yorkshire. At 9.30 on the morning of the 13th April, 1962, when nine cobles of the local fishing fleet were at sea in a freshening wind, the honorary secretary decided to launch the lifeboat The Isa & Penryn...