LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Splendour
SICK MAN ABOARD Lerwick, Shetlands. Shortly after midnight on the 3Oth November, 1963, the coastguard informed the assistant honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Splendour, seventy-five miles eastby- north of Lerwick, had a sick...
New Choice
Longhope, Orkney.—At about 9.20A.M. on the 1st July information was received by telephone from Torness that a trawler was ashore. A moderate easterly wind was blowing. The sea was smooth, but there was a dense fog.
The...
Thistle
Eastbourne, Sussex.—The motor lifeboat Jane Holland was launched at 12.10 P.M. on the 23rd July, as it had been reported that the Royal Sovereign light-vessel was flying a distress signal.
A S.W. gale was blowing, with a...
A Sailing Dinghy
Capsize AFTER CAPSIZING several times offLligwy Beach on Sunday, July 18, the crew of a sailing dinghy were finally unable to right their boat and were drifting seawards.
HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of...
The 35' Sloop Snowgoose
Single-handed sloop A RED FLARE was observed about three miles west of Needles Coastguard lookout at 1240 on Tuesday, October 5,1976.
A helicopter from HMS Daedalus, Leeon- Solent, took off to investigate and at 1300 found...
Oil Rig Orion Went Aground on the North West Shore of Guernsey on February I on Friday February 10 It Was Thought She Was Adrift: In Fact She Had Parted from Her B
Oil rig Orion went aground on the north west shore of Guernsey on February I .
On Friday February 10 it was thought she was adrift: in fact, she had parted from her barge, which had sunk, but was still held aground by her... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Bar Tip
• As last year, I would like once again to pay for my 1973 copies of THE LIFEBOAT.
I look forward to the Journal. I find it very interesting and informative.
After I have finished with it, I put it on the...
Category: Correspondence
The Maud Smith Award
Coxswain George Leith, of the Lerwick, Shetland, lifeboat, who helped to rescue the crew of nine of the trawler Granton Osprey on December 13, 1972, is this year's recipient of the £5 'The Maud Smith Award for courage, in memory...
Category: Awards
Kentish Maid
At 2.48 p.m. on 6th October, 1967, the motor mechanic informed the assistant honorary secretary that a coaster two miles off Anvil point had reported that a small boat inshore ofher was firing flares. In the meantime a message was received...
Henry Browne & Son Ltd
- The new experimental Hatch-boat built by Wm. Osborne Ltd., of Littlehampton for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution who specify Sestrel compasses.
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