LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
King George V
Islay, Hebrides.—At 7.50 on the morn- ing of the 2nd of June, 1957, the Kilchoman coastguard telephoned that the steamer King George V, of Glas- gow, on passage from the Clyde to Oban with thirty-nine people on board, was aground at Scarba...
Twelve Hours In a Whole Gale
ON August 22nd the Clacton Motor Life-boat was out for over twelve hours in a whole gale with a very heavy sea, and went to the help of two vessels.
The first was a small yacht with two people on board, which had become...
Category: Services
An East Coast Gale
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 120 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 54 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to February 15th, 1934 - ... 63,615 An East Coast Gale.
ON 13th December an...
Category: Articles
Pan Gothia
Dungeness, Kent. At 2.5 on the morning of the 18th of June, 1958, the Lade coastguard told the honorary secretary that a man had been lost overboard from the tanker Pan Gothia of Kungsbacka, Sweden, seven and a half miles south-west...
Two Yachts
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 12.5 oil the afternoon of the 3rd of July, 1955, the life-boat coxswain received a message from the Wallasey Ya;ht Club that two yachts had capsized half a mile north-west of Rock Light. Ten minutes later the...
Daybreak, Daymate and Sirious
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. On the afternoon of the 11th of May, 1958, the deputy honorary secretary and members of the life-boat crew were watching a yacht race, when a sudden squall sprang up, the weather grew worse, and several...
Nan McMarrar
Troon, Ayrshire.—There was a fog in the morning of the 4th of March, 1948, and at 10.30 a fisherman of Ayr telephoned that a motor fishing boat was ashore off Ayr harbour. At eleven o'clock the motor life-boat Sir David Richmond of...
The Converted Ship's Boat Stephanie Jan
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. — At 8.55 on the evening of the 21st of May, 1956, the Barry Island coastguard reported that a dinghy was drifting seaward off Portishead and that the crew were waving. The life-boat Fiji and Charles was launched...
The S.S. Yan Yean
ST. ANNE'S-ON-THE-SEA, LANCASHIRE.— The s.s. Yan Yean, of Montrose, having grounded on the Salthouse Bank during a moderate N.W. wind and a heavy sea, on the 4th December, the Laura Janet Life-boat, put off at 2.30 P.M., proceeded to the...
John Young of San Francisco Is Donating Money Each Year to the Rnli to Buy White Horse Whisky for Distribution to Crews Mr Young Has Also Asked His Lawyers to A
John Young of San Francisco is donating money each year to the RNLI to buy White Horse whisky for distribution to crews. Mr Young has also asked his lawyers to amend his will to ensure that the gifts continue.
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Category: Photographs