LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy and a Yacht
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 6.35 p.m. on 24th August, 1965, the coastguard reported that a dinghy in the Rock Channel near R.4 buoy needed help and at 6.50 the life-boat Norman B. Corlett put to sea. A strong gale was blowing from the...
The Norwegian Coaster Sonnodd
Norwegian coaster towed off reef by Mallaig lifeboat On 16 April 1991, coxswain Tommy Ralston of Mallaig lifeboat station sighted from his house the Norwegian coaster Sonnodd heading for the reef to the north of Mallaig...
The S.S. Graiglas (1)
DECEMBER 3RD. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM, AND TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE.
At 4.56 in the morning the coastguard telephoned the life-boat station that two vessels appeared to be in danger, and twenty minutes later he asked that the life...
Disaster to the Submarine Truculent
ON the 12th of January, 1950, H.M.
submarine Truculent, with about seventy-nine men on board, and the Swedish motor tanker, Divina, collided in the Thames Estuary; the submarine sank at once.
This was...
Category: Services
Some Ways of Raising Money from Page 173
awarded annually, is a decorated lifebelt given to the branch by HMS Stubbington earlier in the year.
A supper, organised by Brough and District ladies' guild, was held at Humber Yawl Club on January 26 with 90 people...
Category: Donations
Cover Picture
COVER PICTURE November 17, 1974, and all is quiet at Wells-next-the-sea: Wells 37' Oakley lifeboat, Ernest Tom Nethercoat, moored at the quay, waits to be rehoused after launching on service the previous evening. After a report of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Cameroon
CEMAES AND CEMLYN, ANGLESEY.—The s.s. Cameroon, of Glasgow, bound from the Canary Islands for Liverpool, with passengers and a cargo of African produce, stranded on the rocks at Galanddu Point, near Wylfa Head, in foggy weather on the...
The S.S. Cameroon (1)
CEMAES AND CEMLYN, ANGLESEY.—The s.s. Cameroon, of Glasgow, bound from the Canary Islands for Liverpool, with passengers and a cargo of African produce, stranded on the rocks at Galanddu Point, near Wylfa Head, in foggy weather on the...
Fishing Cobles (1)
A severe gale having suddenly sprung up on the morning of the 31st October, all the fishing-cobles at once hastened back to port, but at 8.20 the Scarborough Coast- guard reported by telephone that a motor fishing-boat belonging to Scar-...
The S.S. Aina
In response to information received from the Coast- guard, the Motor Life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 11.15 A.M. on the 13th January in a strong W.S.W. breeze, with a moderate sea, and went out to the Haisborough Sands. Finding noth-...