LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Peace
At 9 P.M.
on the 30th September distress rockets were seen in the direction of the Swin Middle light-vessel. The information was conveyed to the Coxswain of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 14, and rockets were fired to...
Delila (1)
. Aberdeen, and Newburgh, Aberdeenshire.
—Early on the morning of the 4th November, 1937, the steam trawler Delila, of Aberdeen, ran aground about a mile, south of the Belhelvie coastguard station. She was homeward bound...
Buckingham (2)
Filey, Scarborough, and Whitby, Yorkshire.
—During the evening of the 25th February, 1938, the Grimsby trawler Buckingham, with a crew of sixteen on board, ran aground at Newbiggin Wyke, just north of Filey Brig. A moderate...
The Belgian Fishing Trawler Amelie Suzanne
BELGIAN TRAWLER AIDED A BELGIAN fishing trawler, which ran ashore near Salcombc, Devon, on 1st April, 1972, led to the local life-boat being launched soon after 1.30a.m.
The wind was westerly, force 5 to 6, with a moderate...
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Boy lost A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD BOY ran about a mile long Cromer beach and up cliff steps to the Coastguard lookout on Monday afternoon, August 28, 1978, to raise the alarm that his small brother, aged seven, had disappeared in the...
The S.S. Crawford Castle
The Christmas Gales.
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Life-boat's Four Launches in one Day.
THE gales at the end of October and November were followed by rough weather at the end of December, with heavy...
News from the Branches
Awards to Honorary Workers.1 DURING February and March the following awards have been made to Honorary Secretaries of Branches and to other honorary workers in re- cognition of their services in the cause of the Institution :—• To Captain...
Category: Branches
La Francoise (1)
French trawlermen saved IN THE WAKE OF the hurricane which swept across South East England in the early hours of October 16, 1987, many of the boats berthed at Newhaven Harbour—ripped from their moorings in the 90-knot winds—had been blown...
Mr. Colville's Funeral Address
" I have come here to-night as the representative of the committee of management of the Royal National Life-boat Institution.
" We are met in grief and in pride.
The men whom we mourn were loved...
Category: Articles
Granero
The Norwegian steamer Granero, of Drammen, bound with a cargo of pit-props from Finland for South Alloa, ran ashore at Crawton, twenty miles south of Aberdeen, on the evening of the 23rd October. She carried a crew of eighteen. A moderate...