LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Naming Ceremonies In Northumberland. Cullercoats and Boulmer
Two new motor life-boats on the coast of Northumberland have been named this year, at Cullercoats and Boulmer.
Cullercoats.
A new motor life-boat was stationed at Cullercoats this year, replacing a pulling...
Category: Inaugurations
Special Gifts
* Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary." IN the issue of The Lifeboat for last November, under " Special Gifts," appeared the following paragraph : " We give the following letter in full: " ' Mummy gave me a stamp to put...
Category: Donations
Letters
Brighton lifeboat station I read with interest the reference in the summer issue of THE LIFEBOAT to the fact that Brighton lifeboat station was marking its own 160th anniversary in 1984 as well as that of the...
Category: Correspondence
A Speed Boat
Speedboat sinks ON THE MORNING of Easter Sunday April 7, 1985, Brixham coastguard received a report from a member of the public that a speedboat had sunk on Pole Sands and that there were some people in the water. Fifteen minutes later, at...
Rescue from French Yacht
ACTING Coxswain Eric Grandin of St. Helier, Jersey, has been accorded the Institution's thanks inscribed on vellum for the rescue of four people from the French yacht Kraken which went aground on 26th March, 1967. The St. Helier honorary...
Category: Services
Exe-Cellent Result!
Clubbling together - Rodney Turner, chairman of the Combined Water Sports Clubs of the River Exe, presents the cheque for £11,500 to Simon Turl, senior helmsman of the Exmouth lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Belgian Yacht Haura (1)
Lifeboatmen transferred to Belgian yacht in gale and heavy seas A joint service by Southwold's Atlantic 21 class lifeboat Quiver and Lowestoft's Tyne Spirit of Lowestoft has won two lifeboatmen framed letters of thanks from the...
Troubled Trawler
The relief Trent class lifeboat Corinne Whiteley, stationed in Whitby this Autumn while the town’s regular lifeboat was having a refit in Scotland, is pictured in near-gale conditions on 17 September.
In 5m breaking seas,...
Category: Articles
Past and Present
25 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT December 1965 Scottish Station Closed The life-boat station at Newburgh, Aberdeenshire, was closed on 30th September. The life-boat had not been called out on service for nearly four years, and it...
Category: Articles
Southern Scott
Fishing boat aground THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Peel lifeboat station was informed by Ramsey Coastguard at 0145 on Saturday March 29 that the motor fishing vessel Southern Scott was aground on Old Bath's Beach just to the north east of...