LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Your Letters
A letter from The Queen Mother Brian Miles. RNLI Director for the past 11 years, retired at the end of 1998.
HM The Queen Mother wrote to Brian in October to offer her best wishes and congratulations on a job well...
Category: Correspondence
The S.S. Essex Lance (1)
MARCH 13TH - 16TH. - CROMER, AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At about 2.35 P.M. information came to Cromer from the coastguard that a vessel, which seemed to be sinking, was about two and a half miles N.W. of Cromer, and was being...
News and Views
New hand at the helm Andrew Freemantle, MBE has been appointed the new Director of the RNLI. He will succeed Lieutenant Commander Brian Miles, CBE, who retires at the end of the year after 34 years with the lifeboat...
Category: Articles
Anna Sarah
CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE. — The brigantine Anna Sarah, of Ipswich, while on her way from Ardrossan to a French port, with a cargo of coal, was overtaken by a gale from the S.S.E., when off the Maidens, on the coast of Ireland, and her sails...
Julien Marie
ST. IVES, CORNWALL.—The Life-boat James Stevens No. 10 was launched at 5.15 A.M., on the 5th February, while a strong gale was blowing from N.N.E., and proceeded to the brigantine, Julien Marie, of Auray, coal-laden from Swansea, bound for...
Walkure
The No. 2 Life-boat at Palling, Hearts of Oak, and the Louisa Heartwell, from Croiner, were launched to the assistance of the ship Walkure, of Hamburg, which stranded on the Haisboro Sands on the 4th December. The vessel, which was a large...
Gallilee, Empire and Silver Line.
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of 16th May, 1939, a strong N.E.
wind was blowing with a very rough sea.
About 10.15 it was learnt that two small fishing boats were returning. Thenjust as the motor...
The Fishwives of Cullercoats
THE fishwives of Cullercoats carried out their tenth consecutive collection on behalf of the Institution on 1st August, when the Cullercoats and Whitley Bay Life-boat held its quarterly road exercise and launch. By collecting this year over...
Category: Articles
Nimrod II
USED PARACHUTE FLARE Plymouth, Devon. At 11.20 p.m. on 3ist July, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man in a cabin cruiser off Renney rocks was flashing a light and calling for help. It was half an hour after flood...
Defender
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 8.48 on the evening of the 26th of January, 1957, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that the motor vessel Defender, of Liverpool, had stranded on the revetment wall near the south end of the Formby channel. The...