LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Oldest Life-Boat Collector
BY the death of Mr. Webster Hoare, of St. Albans, on 20th October, the Institution has lost its oldest collector.
Mr. Hoare was nearly 87, and for nearly 30 years had collected for the Institution.
On...
Category: Obituaries
The Aberdeen Trawler Loch Kildonan
TRAWLER ASHORE Stronsay, Orkneys. At 8.30 a.m. on I2th March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Aberdeen trawler Loch Kildonan was ashore on sand in Holland Bay. There was a fresh south-south-easterly breeze with...
33 calls round the island
Almost 2,000 vessels registered to circumnavigate the Isle of Wight in this year’s Round the Island Race on 25 June. Force 6–7 winds and swells of up to 3m meant a busy day for five lifeboat crews, with 23 incidents in all. Cowes’s B class...
Category: Articles
The Chemical Tanker Multitank Ascania
Environmental disaster prevented Bronze medal for Thurso Coxswain and awards to Thurso and Longhope crewsThurso lifeboat Coxswain William Farquhar has been awarded the RNLI's Bronze Medal for bravery for his part in an incident involving...
The Storeyard at Poplar In 1882
The Storeyard at Poplar In 1882. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Helen Craig, of Belfast
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire.—At about 4 P.M. on the 6th December a message was received that a steamer was in distress on the south side of the Ribble channel. She was the Helen Craig, of Belfast, bound for Preston, with a crew of...
The Smithy at Gretna Green
In front of the group is one of the life-boat boxes which collected £227 in three months (See page 154). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Duke of Northumberland's Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1935
THE Duke of Northumberland's Life- boat Essay Competition for elementary schools has been held this year for the fifteenth time. The number of schools which took part was 2,511. an increase of 10 on last year.
Of this...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Pibroch
Campbeltown, Argyllshire. — At 7.10 in the evening of the 9th of March, 1948, the Southend coastguard reported a vessel in the Sound of Sanda burning a red light or flare, and the motor life- boat City of Glasgow was launched at 7.20 in a...
The Kaliningrad-Registered Factory Trawler Borodinskoye Polye
Just eight days later Soldian was once again at sea on service to another factory ship in severe weather. At 2310 on Wednesday 17 November the Kaliningrad-registered factory trawler Borodinskoye Polye went ashore on the Unicorn reef in the...