LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
People and Places
BIRTHDAY HONOURS Among the awards announced in the 1985 Birthday Honours list were: QBE: E. C. B. Corlett, chairman and managing director of Burness, Corlett and Partners, a member of the RNLI's technical consultative committee since...
Category: Articles
Guatemala
BROADSTAIRS.—In reply to signal guns from the light-ship, the Samuel Morrison Collins Life-boat was launched at 8.55 P.M.
on the 30th June. When about half way to the Goodwin Sands, she was taken in tow by the steam-tug...
The Hauxley Launchers
This was the last exercise launch of the pulling and sailing life-boat Mary Andrew, before the station was temporarily closed on 17th January, 1939, when the Amble station was reopened, as an experiment, with a motor life-boat. Hauxley will... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Appeals
AN APPEAL has been launched in Nottinghamshire to raise £150,000 to fund a Brede type lifeboat to be named The Nottinghamshire. In support of the appeal, the ex-Scarborough 37ft Oakley lifeboat /. G. Graves of Sheffield (service...
Category: Articles
Fishing Boats (1)
SCARBOROUGH.—On the morning of the 28th September several Scotch fi>hingboats were making for the harbour in moderate gale from the N.E. and a heavy sea. As it was apparent that danger would be incurred by them in entering the harbour the...
Spreety (1)
Lifeboat and ILB AT 0813 ON WEDNESDAY August 17, 1977, HM Coastguard Aldeburgh requested the launch of Aldeburgh lifeboat to a yacht firing red flares about half a mile east of the lookout. Because of the difficulties of launching at low...
Pippa
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 5.3 on the afternoon of the 20th of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was firing red flares to the east of the har- bour. A moderate west-south-westerly wind was blowing...
The S.S. Muristan
In the meantime tragic occurrences were taking place at Blyth. The s.s. Muristan, a steel steamer belonging to Swansea, while bound from the Tyne to Rouen, ran ashore in Blyth Bay.
On the night of the 18th her steeringgear...
The Motor Yawl Shirma
Longhope, Orkneys.—At 7.45 on the evening of the 21st of May, 1955, the principal keeper of the Cantick Head lighthouse reported that the local motor vawl Shirma, laden with lobster pots and carrying a crew of two, had broken down. He later...
A Canberra Aircraft (1)
Blackpool and Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire ; Llandudno, Caernarvon- shire ; and Rhyl, Flintshire. Between three o'clock and 3.15 on the afternoon of the 9th of October, 1958, the hon- orary secretaries and coxswains of the life-boat...