LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ON the 26th of April, 1955, the S.S.

Germania, of Piraeus, ran ashore to the east of Beachy Head. During the next ten days a number of salvage boats went out to her, and at 4.30 on the afternoon of the 6th of May Coxswain...

Trent saves five in gale force winds and very heavy seas When a northerly gale is blowing against a spring tide conditions in the English Channel near the island of Alderney can be very unpleasant indeed. It was in just these conditions that...

Anstruther, Fifeshire— 16th December.

A steamer had grounded in West Bay, Elie, but the life-boat found the crew being rescued by the coastguard's lifesaving apparatus.—Rewards, £14 Os. 6d..

from page 19 modern lifeboat engines, so that they will continue to operate normally after a capsize. Access is by watertight hatches and ample ventilation trunks keep the engine room unusually cool; these trunks go right down to the bottom...

Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—Soon after 8 P.M. on the 12th June messages were received from the coastguard and the Royal Naval Signal Station that a steamer with 120 passengers on board had been beached one mile west of South Shoebury buoy,...

Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At 8.5 on the evening of the 19th November, 1961, the Walton Bay signal station informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Belle Isle had been in collision with a barge near Chappie rock in the River Severn....

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Coxswain Robert Maiden of Hartlepool (East Division) joined the lifeboat crew in 1961, and was bowman from 1966 to 1967.

He was second coxswain from 1967 until 1968 when the station closed, but in 1976, when it re-opened,... - View image in PDF