LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The RNLI looks at the year's work and the future: 97,000 lives saved since 1824 continued from page 16
MR JOHN GRAY, CBE Belfast branch committee member, 1947; and Belfast branch chairman since 1969.
Mr Gray is a businassman in the export field, who gives a most able lead to this successful branch's fund raising, and in...
Category: Meetings
Life-Boat Families. The Stantons and Stephensons of Boulmer, Northumberland
By Hugh Stephenson, Honorary Secretary of the Boulmer Branch, and a member of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-on-Tyne.
THERE are thirty-four houses in the village of Boulmer. Nine are occupied by Stephensons and...
Category: Articles
Letters
AIRBORNE LIFE-BOATS 0 I was looking at back numbers of THE LIFEBOAT and came on your issue of January, 1971, in which an airborne life-boat in connection with the Wells, Norfolk, article was shown being dropped off the east coast on 5th May,...
Category: Correspondence
Mary Stevens
APPLEDORE, NORTH DEVON.—At about 9.50 A.M. on the 8th March a dismasted vessel was seen in the Bay, driving towards the North Tail Sand. A strong W.S.W. wind was blowing, accompanied by a heavy ground sea. In reply to her signals of distress...
Charles Francis
During a heavy W.S.W. gale signals of distress were seen at 2.20 A.M. on the 6th March from a vessel in close proximity to the " stones." The Life-boat James Stevens No. 10 was promptly launched and with some difficulty, owing to...
January
JANUARY Launches 32. Lives rescued 76.
JANUARY 3RD. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.
At 9.10 P.M. the naval officer in charge telephoned that R.A.F. high-speed launch No. 124 was somewhere off...
Category: Services
Four Gallant Services
AT 11.30 on the morning of the 28th August, 1919, during a strong southerly gale with a very heavy sea and thick rain, the Bembridge Life-boat was launched to the help of an American steamer, the s.s. Wakvlla, of Los Angeles, which had...
Category: Services
Blyth Motor Life-Boat: The Inaugural Ceremony
THE Blyth station is one of the oldest on the coast — it was established in 1826, two years after the Institution itself was founded — and the inaugural ceremony of the Joseph Adlam, the Motor Life-boat which arrived at the station on 4th...
Category: Inaugurations
Grace Darling
October 2oth was the centenary of Grace Darling's death, and a memorial service was held in the church at Bamburgh. Among the wreaths laid on the grave was one from the Institution. The B.B.C. made a record of the service to be broadcast...
Category: Articles
The Shipwash Lightvessel
Aldeburgh, Suffolk. At 9.43 on the morning of the 8th of October, 1957, Trinity House Depot at Harwich asked if the life-boat would bring ashore the sick master of the Shipwash lightvessel, who needed medical treatment urgently.
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