LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Longhope Disaster
ON the night of 17th/18th March, 1969, the Longhope, Orkney, life-boat T.G.B.
capsized. The whole of her crew lost their lives. This was the first life-boat disaster involving the loss of all or nearly all of the crew since...
Category: Articles
Vigilant of Kircaldy
On the 27th June, the schooner Vigilant, of Kirk- caldy, stranded on Taylor's Bank, at the en- trance of the Mersey. Being seen from New Brighton, the tubular life-boat stationed there by the Institution quickly proceeded under sail to...
January (1)
JANUARY MEETING ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At about 5 in the afternoon of the 21st June, 1940, the coastguard reported a ship’s boat drifting some five miles north of Ilfracombe. A light N.N.W. wind was blowing, with a slight sea.
Category: Services
Naming Ceremony at Coverack
SIR ARTHUR. QUILLER-COUCH, Professor of English Literature at Cambridge University, and Commodore of the Fowey Yacht Club, presented to the Institution on 26th July at Coverack, Cornwall, a motor life-boat which has been built out of a...
Category: Inaugurations
Your shout
Keep our launches!
In response to Christopher Hansen’s comment last issue, please do not give up the lifeboat launchings summary. You can’t possibly feature more than a very few high-profile rescues in...
Category: Articles
Family Profile By Joan Davies
THEY CAME FROM FRANCE, the TartS of Dungeness. They were Huguenots and it was in the days before religious toleration. So when persecution became too great they took to their boats, being fishing people, and sailed across the Channel to...
Category: Articles
December
Launches 52 Lives rescued 54 DECEMBER 2ND. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
At 6.15 in the morning the coastguard reported that a vessel three miles south-east of St. Ives Head had signalled that she was sinking. A moderate...
Category: Services
The Margate Pulling and Sailing Life-Boat, "Eliza Harriett," Returning With 3 Men Rescued from the Ketch-Barge "Lord Nelson," of London, and 5 from the Motor-Barge "Guernsey," of London, on 22nd October, 1924
The Margate Pulling and Sailing Life-Boat "Eliza Harriett" Returning With 3 Men Rescued From The Ketch-Barge " Lord Nelson" of London and & From The Motor-Barge "Guernsey" of London On 22nd Oct. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Barbara of Hopeman
On the llth March the sloop Barbara, of Hopeman, sprang a leak, and split her fore-staysail, in a heavy gale from the north. She accord- ingly ran for the sands to the eastward of Lossiemouth, when the life-boat of the In- stitution...
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1905
THE Board of Trade have recently placed in the hands of the public their annual Blue Book dealing with the shipping casualties which occur on or near the coasts of the United Kingdom ; the present number furnishing the relative statistics...
Category: Articles