LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The future of maroons Sir - Are we to witness the total phasing out of the firing of maroons at our lifeboat stations? This issue must have been the subject of much debate during my periods at sea away from the UK, but I sincerely hope that...

Teesmouth, Yorkshire—At 11.15 on the night of the 20th of July, 1957, the South Gare coastguard telephoned that a small coaster was ashore in the river near Redcar wharf. It was learnt later that the coaster was aground by her stern and that...

Collision A COLLISION IN DENSE FOG between MV Futurity and the motorboat Little Slam some three miles south east of Littlehampton was reported to the honorary secretary of Shoreham Harbour lifeboat station at 1510 on Saturday May 12, 1979....

Valentla, Co. Kerry.—At 5.15 on the afternoon of the 21st of July, 1956, a message was received from Valentia radio that the tanker Dona Myrto, of Panama, with a gravely ill man aboard, was expected to arrive off Yalentia at midnight. At...

WHITBY.—On the afternoon of the 24th May some of the fishing craft of Whitby put to sea in comparatively moderate weather, but towards evening a violent gale sprang up, accompanied by a heavy sea, and 4 of the cobles were seen labouring and...

THE life-boat exhibition which was given in London at the Charing Cross Underground Station in May and June of last year,1 was given this year for a fortnight in Manchester and a week in Salford.

The Manchester exhibition...

Inverness Sub-Aqua Club held a sponsored snorkel in the River Ness, starting from the Infirmary bridge and ending up at Friar's bridge. Clem Watson, area organiser for north Scotland, is pictured (centre) in the river just before... - View image in PDF

Some of my best and most exciting memories have been stirred by your feature Then and Now.

Then: I lived in Hastings as a small girl in the 1950s, and remember the sound of the maroon followed by the footsteps of Coxswain...