LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
‘ I THOUGHT IT WAS MY LAST BREATH’
After a fateful day at the end of June, Uzma Khan was left wondering what would have happened if she hadn’t stepped out onto the sands … if she hadn’t been carrying a mobile phone … or if three volunteers hadn’t gone to her...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF MAN.—Signals of distress being shown by a schooner passing Castletown Bay to the eastward, making rapidly towards Langness Point, and apparently in a helpless condition during a gale of wind from the N.W. with snow...
Category: Services
Havkvern
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 10.14 on the night of the 31st of May, 1956, the Spurn Point coastguard reported thatthe Norwegian trawler Havkvern had sent a message that she would be off Spurn lightvessel about three o'clock the next morning and...
A NEW LINE IN LIFESAVING
When people think of the RNLI preventing tragedies, lifesaving rescues usually spring to mind. But there is a host of other ways to keep people safe at sea – and on the river …
In 2012, two men...
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Pirouttie
YACHT WAS AGROUND At 10.7 p.m. on 2nd August, 1964, a local resident informed the honorary secretary that a white flare had been seen at the entrance to Morar bay. It was halftide with a moderate sea and a gentle south-westerly breeze. At 10...
The Secretary Retires
COLONEL A. D. BURNETT BROWN, O.B.E., M.C., T.D., M.A.. retired from the post of Secretary of the Institution on the 30th of June, 1960, after twenty- nine years in the Institution's service.
He came to the Institution...
Category: Committee
A Trawler
Stonehaven, Kincardineshire, and Aberdeen.—2nd January. A trawler wrecked and crew of nine lost before her plight was known.—Rewards, Stonehaven, £17 Is. 6d., Aberdeen, £6 17s. 6d..
A Vessel
24th and 26th February. A vessel had broken away from her tow, but was able to anchor to await tugs and did not need help.— Rewards, 1st launch, £24 15s.; 2nd launch, £8 8s..
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution from the 1st Oct. To the 31st Dec., 1876
DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.—On the night j of Sunday the 1st October, 1876, the ] No. 2 Life-boat, John Turner-Turner, res- cued the crew of the brig Mary Ann, of Whitehaven, and 4 boatmen, being 10 in all, from that vessel, which had drifted on...
Category: Services
An Aeroplane (150)
OCTOBER 2ND. - CLOVELLY, DEVON.
Au aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found. Soldiers helped in the launch of the life-boat. - Rewards, £31 5s.