JANUARY 26TH. - NEWBURGH, AND ABERDEEN, ABERDEENSHIRE. On the 25th January a very heavy storm of wind and snow broke on the coast. All roads and railways became blocked with snow, making traffic impossible, and telephone wires were broken....
FAILED TO START At 9.15 p.m. on the following day, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor boat appeared to have broken down between the North pier and Wreck buoy, and the crew were waving for help. Two minutes...
(Main photot Members of Newttggm lifeboat ciaw and branch present the timg capsute to contractor Bill Rutter and (inset) T is biined under the now. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Silver Jubilee postscript . . . from Torbay: On August 5, Torbay lifeboat the 54' Arun Edward Bridges (Civil Service No. 37), escorted the royal barge bringing HM The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh ashore from MMS... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lieutenant-Commander J A Douglas MBE RN Chief Inspector Of HM Coastguard Receiving From The Duke Of Kent President Of The RNLI The Institution's Gold. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Great' Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister, Norfolk; and Lowestoft, and Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—About 6.30 in the evening, on the 7th of June, 1950, an American Superfortress aeroplane crashed eight miles north-north-east of Smith's...
Hypalon coated nylon inflatable sponsons. All new boats are now orange.
Conical diaphram between sections allows some transfer of pressure if forward section is damaged and leaking.
Marine ply deck over...
Category: Articles
COXSWAIN ALBERT SPURGEON, of Lowestoft, who died on the 5th of April, 1953, at the age of 73, had been one of the Institution's most distin- guished coxswains. According to the local records he joined the life-boat crew in his teens, and...
Category: Obituaries
When a man was washed off Whitley Bay promenade into a very lively sea on 20 June, the B class lifeboat from Cullercoats was sent to help.
The man was being repeatedly thrown against the promenade, but the water was too...
Category: Articles
Relief Brede: Champagne breaks over the bow of the 33ft Brede relief lifeboat named RNLB Merchant Navy to mark the generous support given to the lifeboat service over many years by merchant seamen. The ceremony took place in St Katharine... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs