LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

COVER PICTURE by Maggie Murray The ten bronze medallists who received their awards at the 1989 meetings in London pictured aboard the Tyne class lifeboat The Famous Grouse shortly before the ceremony.

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Whitby, Yorkshire On the 13th January the Whitby motor fishing vessel Provider went to Bridlington for repairs to her capstan. Nothing was heard of her all day and, as the sea was making, enquiries were madeat 9.30 P.M. It was learnt that...

On the morning of the 30th June a strong N.E. gale sprang up causing a very heavy sea whilst the herring fleet were returning from the fishing grounds.

Owing to the heavy swell and surf at the Harbour entrances it was...

Stromness, Orkneys.—At 1.5 in the afternoon, on the 18th of January, 1951, the Kirkwall coastguard tele- phoned that the Wick radio station had reported the motor ship Tatra of Tonsberg, broken down and in distress, twenty-three miles...

MAN FROM NORWEGIAN VESSEL OVERBOARD Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 18th February, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man was reported overboard from the Norwegian motor vessel Livanita of...

Mr. Neil Speed, the skipper of the motor fishing vessel Moira, has been accorded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum for the rescue of 10 people from the motor yacht Quesada on the night of 22nd/23rd May,...

Caister, Norfolk. At 3.50 on the afternoon of the 9th of July, 1959, the coastguard at Gorleston informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was making little headway in a very rough sea off North Scroby buoy. A later report from the...

Rising winds RYE AUXILIARY COASTGUARD requested the launch of Rye Harbour lifeboat at 1350 on Saturday October 3 following reports that the 24ft ketch Midley Belle was heading out to sea. It was a squally afternoon with moderate confused...