LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Beaver
NIGHT SEARCH FOR MISSING YOUTH AND CABIN CRUISER Troon, Ayrshire. At 11.45 p.m. on Monday the 22nd of July, 1963, the honorary secretary was informed by a youth's father that the cabin cruiser Beaver with the boy on board had left...
A Motor Boat From H.M.S. Conway
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 3.48 in the afternoon of the 14th of June, 1952, the Wallasey Corporation vessel Royal Iris wirelessed that she had seen smoke signals from a motor boat on the Burbo Bank, about t-wo miles west-north-west of Burbo...
Pass-o-Leny (1)
DEC. 1ST. - LYTHAM - ST. ANNE’S, LANCASHIRE, AND NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 8.45 A.M. the Lytham secondcoxswain reported a vessel ashore by Peet’s Light, south of the 12th Mile Beacon. A S.W.
gale was blowing, with a heavy...
Will Everard
Caister, Norfolk. At 8.20 on the morning of the 13th of December, 1960, the life-boat mechanic telephoned to say the barge Will Everard was aground on Scroby Sand due east of the life-boat station. This was confirmed later by the coastguard....
The Viscount Grey of Fallodon: A Correction
IN the obituary notice of the Viscount Grey of Fallodon, which appeared in the last issue of The Life-boat, it was stated that his last public appearance on behalf of the Institution was at the inaugural ceremony of the Boulmer motor...
Category: Obituaries
Prototypes of a New Fast Slipway Lifeboat
WITH THE TIME APPROACHING when the RNLI's 46ft 9in and 47ft Watson class housed lifeboats will reach the end of their station lives, preparations have been going ahead over the past few years for their replacement by a new fast slipway...
Category: Articles
Cover Picture
COVER PICTURE by Maggie Murray The ten bronze medallists who received their awards at the 1989 meetings in London pictured aboard the Tyne class lifeboat The Famous Grouse shortly before the ceremony.
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Category: Photographs
Cover Picture
Superintendent Coxswain Brian Sevan of Humber lifeboat station, the first lifeboatman to receive the gold, silver and bronze medals for gallantry at the same annual presentations of awards meeting. He was awarded the gold medal, and his crew... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Oil Supply Vessel Smit Lloyd 47
Seven rescued THE OIL SUPPLY VESSEL Smit Lloyd47, dragging her anchor and grounded in a severe easterly gale and heavy swell on the west shore of Peterhead Harbour of Refuge, about five cables from the lifeboat slipway, was reported to the...
Scottish Maid
A fortnight later, on Thursday June 4, the fishing vessel Scottish Maid on passage from Wick to Kirkwall went ashore half a mile south of Noss Head Light; there were three men on board.
It was a fine night with variable...