LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Campbeltown
CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE On the 16th March, 1946, the Campbeltown life-boat rescued fifty-four persons from the American steamer Byron Darnton.
COXSWAIN DUNCAN NEWLANDS was awarded a clasp to his bronze medal..
Category: Medals
A Telegraph Cable Buoy
OCTOBER 18TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT.
A water-logged boat had been reported, but was found to be a telegraph cable buoy which had broken away from its moorings. - Rewards, £12 2s..
Open House
The RNLI Headquarters site, which includes the Lifeboat College, opens its doors to the public on 9–10 July.
Join us in Poole, Dorset, for exciting displays, demonstrations and lots of activities for children!
Category: Articles
Ferry collision
7 March: Bangor and Donaghadee lifeboats launched on the evening of 7 March after a passenger ferry and a cargo vessel collided in Belfast Lough. There were no injuries. The lifeboats helped assess the damage to...
Category: Articles
A Vessel (2)
JANUARY 19TH. - TOBERMORY, ARGYLLSHIRE. A vessel had been reported ashore on Tiree Island, but the lifeboat’s help was not needed and the call was cancelled. Her crew were three short, and these places were filled by three naval...
An Aeroplane (152)
SEPTEMBER 20TH. - HOLYHEAD , ANGLESEY, AND PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. An R.A.F. Anson trainer aeroplane had come down in the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards : Holyhead, £5 ; Porthdinllaen, £13 6s.
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A Steamer (21)
JULY 4TH . - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
A steamer had been bombed and sunk, four of her crew being killed, but the seven survivors, three badly wounded, were picked up by a patrol boat. - Rewards, £5 18s..
James Lay
The steam trawler James Lay, of London, with a crew of fourteen on board, bound for Hull, laden with fish, grounded on Filey Brigg at about 8 A.M. on the 12th January in a thick fog. The sea was smooth. Cobles endeavoured to refloat the...
Pride of Erin (1)
Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 3.27 on the afternoon of the 31st of January, 1957, the Southend coastguard tele- phoned to say the police had been informed that flashing lights had been seen from a vessel in Machrihanish Bay. The life-boat...
The Auxiliary Barge Thyra
Cromer, Norfolk. — At 6.26 in the morning, on the 21st of November, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a ship was firing rockets about two miles to the north. At 6.42 the No. 1 life- boat Henry Blogg was launched. The sea was rough with a...