LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Vessel
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—10th January.
A motor vessel had been reported to be in difficulties, but was not in need of help.—Rewards, £8 11s. 3d..
A Steamer (3)
Scarborough, Yorkshire 25th January.
A steamer had gone aground, but was not in immediate danger.— Rewards, £53 15s. 6d..
A Steamer (9)
JUNE 27TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. A large steamer had gone aground on the Shingles Bank, but tugs were in attendance and the life-boat’s help was not needed. - Rewards, £3 19s. 6d..
A Foreign Fishing Boat
SEPTEMBER 6TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
A flare had been reported and a foreign fishing boat was found, but she did not need help. - Rewards, £10..
None (68)
JULY 22ND. - EXMOUTH, DEVON. Red flares had been reported, but the naval authorities sent a message that the life-boat was not needed and she was recalled. - Rewards, £13 0S. 6d..
Three Norwegian Fishing Vessels
Lerwick, Shetland - The life-boat Claude Cecil Staniforth slipped her moorings on 15th March, 1969, to go to the assistance of three Norwegian fishing vessels. A full report of this service, for which each member of the life-boat crew...
Sir John Cumming
SIR JOHN GHEST GUMMING, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., died on the 9th of March, 1958, at the age of 89. He joined the Committee of Management of the Institution in 1921 and was appointed a Vice- President in 1932. He resigned from the Committee in 1956....
Category: Obituaries
Mountbatten of Burma Is Hauled Over By Crane for Her Capsize and Righting Trial; She Has Already Been Hauled Over More Than 100 Degrees and Is Still Stable the Port Tube of Her Sponson Supporti
Mountbatten of Burma is hauled over by crane for her capsize and righting trial; she has already been hauled over more than 100 degrees and is still stable, the port tube of her sponson supporting the weight of the whole boat. -The roll bar... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Favonian
Peel, Isle of Man.—At 3.46 on the afternoon of the 8th of December, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that the fishing boat Favonian, of Belfast, which had a crew of four, was burning a flare a quarter of a mile north of Peel breakwater....
Ready for the 12 1/2-Ton Lifeboat to Gather Speed Down Over the Skids and Hit the Sea
. . . ready for the 12 '/2-ton lifeboat to gather speed down over the skids and hit the sea.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs