LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Novelli
Bridlington, Yorkshire.—On the morn- ing of the 3rd of November, 1956, the owners of the steam trawler Novelli, of Hull, asked if the life-boat would take off an injured man. It was low water, and as no other boat was afloat, the life-boat...
Question Time:
Question time: three lifeboatmen from Minehead ready to answer questions in a new series of Granada TV's Busman's Holiday, beginning in the new year and offering prizes of trips to exotic parts. Bryan Stoner (I), Chris Rundle... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
S.S. Jan Van Goyen
JANUARY 9TH. - TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE.
At 9.30 in the morning, the senior naval officer telephoned that the S.S. Jan Van Goyen, which had lost both anchors and carried away her windlass, had stood out to sea. She was one of...
A Landing Craft
JANUARY 16TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
At 6.30 in the morning a message was received from the flag officer, Humber, through the coastguard, that there had been an explosion on a landing craft four and a half miles east of...
Sirius
On the 28th February the local motor fishing boat Sirius, with two men on board, was seen to be in distress to the north-east of Dunmore. Her engine had broken down and she was drifting on to the rocks before a strong...
An American Flying Fortress (1)
SEPTEMBER 17TH. - NORTH SUNDERLAND, AND HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 12.25 in the morning the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea one and a half miles north by east of Seahouses. She was an...
Aighai and Mistley
JULY 6TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 12.35 in the morning the coastguard reported a vessel aground on South Scroby Sands, and a few minutes later another message came that a second vessel had grounded on South Scroby Sands....
The Launch Devotion
Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 12.40 on the afternoon of the 14th July, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that a launch engaged for work on a pipe-line two miles north of Hartlepool was in difficulties and needed help. At one o'clock...
Ceremonies
The Mumbles, August 29, 1986: A bi-ling ceremony was the order of the day when The Mumbles' new 16ft D class inflatable lifeboat was dedicated with prayers in Welsh and English. After Dr Hudson, chairman of the station committee, had...
Category: Inaugurations
Lily
The No. 2 Life- boat, British Workman, left this station on the 24th October in stormy weather, and boarded the Lily, a barque laden with timber, which was stranded on the Has- borongh Sands; and, finding her to be deserted, took possession,...