LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Minna
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides - At 11 a.m. on 2yth March, 1967, a message was received that the fishing cruiser Minna had asked for immediate medical assistance for a member of her crew who had fallen overboard off Kepoch Head. He had been...
Life-Boat Saturday Fund
IT is gratifying to be able to report that notwithstanding the great difficulties again experienced during the past year by all the workers for the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE - BOAT INSTITUTION, whether in connection with the Branches or the...
Category: Articles
Kingston Prison In Portsmouth
People passing by Kingston Prison in Portsmouth one day in April were amazed to see the prison doors swing open and hordes of oddly dressed 'convicts' flooding out. They were all competitors in the great charity jailbreak, organised... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Herring Boats
Early on the morning of the 17th January several local herring boats put off to fish in the bay. Later heavy S.W.
squalls sprang up, with a rough sea and rain. It was reported that some of the boats were in danger, and the...
A Record Summer
THE six summer months of this year have been the busiest which the Lifeboat Service has ever had in time of peace. Its boats have been out on service more often and have rescued more lives than ever before. The launches numbered 339, the...
Category: Services
Virgin
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. — At 11.30 in the night of the 15th of Septem- ber, 1949, the parents of a fisherman and two boys reported that their sons had put out in the motor fishing boat Virgin, of Castlebay, but were now overdue. The...
Life-Boat Charts for Yacht Clubs
As in the past two years, the Institution has again supplied free to all yacht clubs which wished to have it a copy of the chart of life-boat stations round the British Isles which appears in the annual report. This chart, besides having...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Charts for Yacht Clubs
As in the past three years, the Institu- tion has again supplied free to all yacht clubs which wished to have it a copy of the chart of life-boat stations round the British Isles which appears in the annual report. This chart, besides ...
Category: Articles
Victor
Dover, Kent. At 6.30 on the morning of the 18th of May, 1958, a message was received that the pilot boat Victor of Dover was drifting, with her steering gear broken, three miles west-south- west of Dover. At 6.45 the life-boat Southern...
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FIVE ADULTS AND TWO CHILDREN RESCUED Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 11.10 on the evening of Saturday the 14th of September, 1963, the police told the honorary secretary that a number of people were trapped on a cliff in Loch...