In the Winter 96/97 issue, spotter's guide to lifeboat classes looked at the lifeboats of the Institution's all-weather fleet. In this issue, we bring you the inshore lifeboats and the only intermediate class in the fleet, the... - View image in PDF
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Mablethorpe has received a new Atlantic 75 provided for by the legacy of the late Miss Evelyn Selina Wallace, of Newton Abbot, Devon. Miss Wallace funded the new lifeboat and provided a substantial amount towards the cost of the new station.... - View image in PDF
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MARCH 25TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
At 1.42 A.M. the coastguard informed the life-boat station that an explosion, apparently from an aeroplane which had crashed into the sea, had been heard at a coast-watching post at...
NOVEMBER 24TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 2.38 P.M. a heavy explosion was heard, and shortly afterwards the coastguard reported that vessel had struck a mine and was sinking one and a half miles S.E. from the coastguard...
DECEMBER 1ST. - RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE.
The Runswick and Staithes cobles were out fishing in a moderate wind, but during the morning the wind increased to a strong gale from the N.N.W., with a rough sea and heavy rain, and the...
SEPTEMBER 7TH. - STROMNESS, ORKNEYS.
At two in the morning the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that a motor launch was ashore in Hoy Sound one hundred yards north-east of Ness Beacon and in need of help.
A...
MARCH 2ND. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON. At 4.30 A.M. information was received from the King’s Harbour Master that signals of distress were being shewn in Jennycliffe Bay, and the motor life-boat Robert and Marcella Beck was launched at 5.10 A.M. A...
APRIL 11TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At 3.35 A.M. information was received from the R.A.F. at Coltishall that an aeroplane had crashed about four miles N.N.W. of Cromer, and the No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at...
LYME REGIS, DORSET.— On the 14th No- vember, 1860, the smack Elizabeth Ann, of Lyme Regis, culm lade*, was driven ashore at the back of the Northern harbour wall, the Wind blowing a hard gale' from the S.W. at the time, and the night...
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Overturned fishing vessel AN EIGHTEEN FOOT fishing vessel, Melinda Muriel, had put out to sea from Skinningrove, Cleveland, with fourpeople on board on the morning of Tuesday July 29, 1986. The wind was north westerly and there were squally...