Three yachtsmen saved from Buxey Sands in heavy weather The crew of Clacton's relief Atlantic 21 and Walton and Frinton's Solent lifeboats have received letters of thanks from the RNLI's chief of operations following a joint...
Bronze Medal Service at Aberdeen.
ON the evening of Christmas Day, the Aberdeen trawler, George Stroud, with a crew of five, was steaming up the channel into Aberdeen harbour.
When about 200 yards inside...
Category: Services
The death has occurred of Ex-Coxswain James T. Upperton, of Shoreham, who was 78.
In 1941, as acting coxswain, Mr. Upperton was awarded the silver medal of the Institutions for rescuing 22 people from a minesweeper. Then,...
Category: Obituaries
PENARTH, SOUTH WALES.—The Life- boat on this station, in compliance with the urgent and repeated requests of the crew, has been replaced by a smaller boat, for it was found that, on account of there not being a sufficient number of men on...
Category: Articles
Propeller fouled NUMEROUS TELEPHONE CALLS were received by Brixham Coastguard at about 0120 on Wednesday August 18, 1982, reporting the sighting of red flares off Teignmouth Pier. Teignmouth Coastguard rescue company were immediately alerted...
Twelve minutes of terror It took Port Talbot's inshore lifeboat crew just a few minutes to save a life at sea but the three found their training and courage tested to the limit On the morning of 10 January 2006 a call came through to...
The hull form of the Arun class is shown clearly in this self-righting trial. Note the flat sections aft to promote planing and the small tunnels to allow larger propellers.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The brig Lizzie, of Newport, Monmouthshire, was stranded on the eastern spit of Hayle Bar, during a violent storm from the north, with showers of hail, on the 20th March. The Oxford University life-boat Isis went out, in reply to her signals...
THE celebration of the centenary of the establishment of the first life-boat on the Norwegian coast took place at Stavanger on 22nd August, 1954. It was held at the time of the Annual General Meeting of the Norwegian Life-boat Society and...
Category: Articles
Horrific conditions for two lifeboats Clogher Head and Newcastle 's Mersey class lifeboats were launched in winds of Storm Force 10 to Hurricane Force 12 on 3 February 1994 when an 80ft trawler reported that she was taking water and...