LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Kirkwall - Scotland Division
Kirkwall, capital of Orkney and its Mainland island, lies upon a busy harbour in which there is a constant coming and going of fishing boats, ferries and other seagoing traffic.
Kirkwall station opened in 1972 following... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
October
Launches 30. Lives rescued 19.
OCTOBER 6TH. - PORT ERIN, AND PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. Shortly after two in the morning the Ramsey coastguard informed both life-boat stations that a ship was in distress W.S.W. of the...
Category: Services
Service Lasted 11 Hours
COXSWAIN HENRY BROWN and crew of the Walmer life-boat have been awarded a framed letter of thanks, signed by the Chairman of the Institution, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, C.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., for rescuing three people from a yacht which had...
Category: Services
Three Russian Seamen Rescued Off Rocks
ON the 16th of October, 1958, the Soviet trawler Urbe, which was believed to have a crew of about twenty-five, sank near the Holm of Skaw, an uninhabited rocky islet off the northeastern corner of the Shetland island of Unst. The trawler was...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Empire Bridge
MARCH 15TH - 17TH. - LYTHAM-ST.
ANNES, LANCASHIRE. At 9.30 A.M.
information was received from the resident naval officer at Preston, and confirmed by the coastguard, that a vessel was aground, and at 10...
Eleno
The Lizard, Cadgwith and Penlee, Cornwall, and Plymouth, Devonshire.— On the 5th March the Italian steamer Eleno sent out a wireless message that her engines had broken down, that she was drifting ashore, and wanted...
The Sailing Trawler W. E. H.
On the morning of the 7th December the Lowestoft sailing trawler W.E.H. ran ashore on a sandbank formed at the North Pier extension, while returning from the fishing grounds. A whole E.N.E. gale was blowing and heavy seas broke over the...
A Dinghy (1)
The Lizard—Cadgwith, Cornwall - At 1.47 p.m. on 16th April, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a skin diver was in difficulties off the Lizard outer rocks and was drifting away from his dinghy.
The...
Here and There
AN RNLI JUBILEE FAYRE, organised by a committee representing several North Cornwall branches, will be held on the Royal Agricultural Show grounds, Wadebridge, on Wednesday, August 24.
The grounds have kindly been made...
Category: Articles
Sea Hawkinge
Caister, Norfolk. At 3.50 on the afternoon of the 9th of July, 1959, the coastguard at Gorleston informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was making little headway in a very rough sea off North Scroby buoy. A later report from the...