LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk.—At 11.15 on the morning of the 16th of December, 1957, the honorary secretary was informed that the S.S.

Motto, of Newcastle, was approaching Great Yarmouth with a sick man on board...

At daybreak on the 20th December, the Austrian barque Suez was observed riding at anchor with signals of distress flying, about three miles and a half east of Newquay. The life-boat at that place was quickly launched, and found the vessel...

AT the beginning of September the two Motor Life-boats for Montrose and Longhope went to their Stations from the Building Yard at Cowes. Com- mander B. D. Drury, O.B.E., K.D., R.N.R., the Northern District Inspector, •was in command, both...

Over mud WHILE PAYING a routine visit to Spurn Coastguard lookout on Saturday December 6, 1980, Superintendent Coxswain Brian Bevan of Humber lifeboat station was told, at 1912, that Hull Radio had reported two red flares sighted in the Foul...

The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—On the 23rd of April. 1948, the s.s. Albion Star, of London, was anchored off shore.

Her crew had run out of food, while taking the steamer to a yard to be broken up. A south-westerly breeze was...

Humber, Yorkshire.—At 9.40 on the morning of the 13th of March, 1955, the Spurn Point coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Hadiotis, of Syra, Greece, which was lying at anchor two miles south of Spurn Point, had signalled that she had a sick...

H.M. Submarine Alliance, 1,385 tons, aground on Bembridge ledge, Isle of Wight, on 12th January, 1968, when the local life-boat, pictured here, stood by the submarine until she was refloated. A letter of thanks to the R.N.L.I. from the... - View image in PDF

Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumber- land. At ten o'clock on the night of 26th April, 1961, the harbour master in- formed the honorary secretary that the tanker Clydefield of Newcastle, on passage for Canada, had a man aboard with an injured...