LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Karanan
Wells and Sheringham, Norfolk.— On the night of the 20th September the coastguard reported a ship ashore a mile east of Blakeney Point. A strong easterly wind was blowing, with a rough sea, and the weather was thick. The Wells motor...
H.M. Tug Mediator
Humber, Yorkshire. — At 12.10 in the morning of the 27th of May, 1952, the Spurn Point coastguard tele- phoned that the tug Scotsman, of Hull, which had been helping H.M.
tug Mediator to tow a naval vessel, was making...
South-Western District Conference
A CONFERENCE of branches and guilds from seven counties in the South West of England—Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Wiltshire, Dorset, Berkshire, Oxford- shire and East Somerset—was held at Southampton on the 13th June,...
Category: Meetings
The S.S. Charlus, of Sunderland
DECEMBER 14TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 10.45 in the morning the coastguard reported white rockets at Bullers of Buchan, about four miles to the south of Peterhead. A strong south-south-east wind was blowing, with a...
The Bravest Deed of 1948
THE "Miss Maud Smith's reward for courage, in memory of John, 7th Earl of Hardwicke," for the bravest deed of the year has. been awarded to Coxswain Frederick Upton, of Walmer, for the rescue of thirty lives from the Italian...
Category: Awards
The Secretary Retires
COLONEL A. D. BURNETT BROWN, O.B.E., M.C., T.D., M.A.. retired from the post of Secretary of the Institution on the 30th of June, 1960, after twenty- nine years in the Institution's service.
He came to the Institution...
Category: Committee
Barra Island Lifeboat the 52Ft Burnett R a Colby Cubbin No 3 Her Emergency Air Bag Inlfated After She Had Been Capsized and Had Righted
Barra Island lifeboat, the 52ft Burnett R. A. - View image in PDF
Colby Cubbin No. 3, her emergency air bag inlfated, after she had been capsized and had righted. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of HMS Gannet. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fishing Cobles
At 6 A.M. on the 4th April nine of the cobles belonging to Filey went off fishing, in a moderate N.E. breeze. Later the sea increased very much, and at 9 A.M. one coble returned and reported the sea outside was very rough for the cobles....
Sea Serpent
About 5 A.M., on the 24th November, the barque Sea Serpent, of South Shields, was observed ashore op- posite the Wellington Pier, the wind blow- ing a gale from the E. at the time. The Yarmouth small surf life-boat was im- mediately launched...
The Factory Ship Pionersk
67 saved from stranded factory ship in Storm Force winds Lerwick's Arun class lifeboat Soldian was involved in another service to a Russian factory ship on 31 October 1994, another service in very bad weather and involving the evacuation...