LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Four Sprat Boats
FOUR SPRAT BOATS Wells, Norfolk. At 5.20 p.m. on aist November, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen north-west of the coastguard lookout. There was a strong gale from the west-south-west with a...
Piepenhannes
Weymouth lifeboat Tony Vandervell returns to Weymouth Harbour with the Poole-based yacht Piepenhannes in tow. The yacht fouled a propeller on a pot line at Lulworth Cove on September 6, 1987 and ran aground. A local fishing boat helped her...
Coastguard changes update
The UK Government revealed on 14 July that its proposed cuts to HM Coastguard had been scaled back. It is now intended to close 8 centres rather than 10, to have the remaining 10 centres (Solent, Dover, Aberdeen, Shetland, Stornoway, Belfast...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boatman's Log
Award to the Peterhead Coxswain THE Royal Humane Society has awarded its "Testimonial on Parch- ment" to Coxswain John Buchan McLean, of Peterhead, a gold medallist of the Institution, for diving fully clothed into Port Henry...
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The Granton Trawler Marjory M. Hastie
MARCH 4TH. - ANSTRUTHER, FIFESHIRE.
At four in the morning the Elie coastguard reported that a trawler was aground near Boarhills, and the motor lifeboat Nellie and Charlie was launched at 4.45.
A strong...
Duchess of Leith (1)
CURIOUS INCIDENT OFF SHERINGHAM Sheringham and Cromer, Norfolk. At about five o'clock on the afternoon of Thursday the 19th September, 1963, the Sheringham coxswain launched his crab boat to investigate a cabin cruiser, Duchess of Leith,...
Repertor
Southend-on-Sea, Essex - At 6.54 p.m. on 9th March, 1967, a barge was reported in difficulties near the Black Tail Spit buoy. The life-boat Cecil amd Lillian Philpott, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 7.21 in a storm force...
(Right) Whitby's Tyne Class Lifeboat City of Sheffield
(Right) Whitby's Tyne class lifeboat City of Sheffield is pictured ready for her hull inspection and scrub down at the town's Endeavour Wharf. The operation took some three hours, but the lifeboat remained operational as she could... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A United States Jet Aircraft
Margate, Kent.—At 4.12 on the after- noon of the 4th of September, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that an explo- sion had been seen north-west of the coastguard station, and later stated that a United States jet aircraft had been seen to...
Golden Gift
Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk.—At 12.10 on the afternoon of the 12th of October, 1956, a small fishing boat was seen from the boathouse to be firing distresssignals about one mile and a quarter north-east of the life-boat...