LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Express Annie Brooks and Mary Ann
APPLEDORE, DEVON.—About 7 P.M. on the 4th April the Life-boat Hope was launched from this station during a strong breeze at W.N.W., and proceeded to the assistance of the schooners Express, Annie Brooks, and Mary Ann, which were wrecked on...
Samuel and Ann, of Great Yarmouth
On the 7th December the schooner Samuel and Ann, of Great Yarmouth, went on the Horsey Bank while it was blowing a fresh gale from E.N.E., the night being intensely dark at the time. The Palling No. 1 Life- boat Parsee was launched with...
The Barges Mary Ann and Edith
SOUTHEND, ESSEX.—At 9.30 A.M. on the 2nd March the Coxswain received a telegram from Shoebury that a bargehad foundered. As a whole southerly gale was blowing, and a rough sea running, the Life-boat James Stevens No. 9 proceeded to her...
Shake It All About
Sheringham lifeboat guild held their second very successful line dance at the Regal Assembly rooms in Sheringham on 4 April. For the people who don't know what a line dance is we are told by the branch press officer that it is a cross... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The King's Jubilee. An Old-Age Pensioner's Gift
AN anonymous gift of ten shillings has been received with the message : " A jubilee gift from an old-age pensioner of West Hampstead." Another anonymous gift, of half a crown, has come from another old-age pensioner, who wrote...
Category: Donations
The Life-Boat Service In 1948. A Comparison With Ten and Twenty Years Ago
IN 1948 the life-boats of the Institution were called out 603 times to vessels in distress.
Ten years ago the number was 485.
That was then a record year for time of peace. In each of the three years since...
Category: Articles
143 Medals for Gallantry.
In thirty months of war the Institution has awarded to- lite-boatmen 143 ajedals for gallantry, aad life-boatmen have also wen the Distinguished S*rvie» Med*i, the British Empire Medal aad the George Medal..
Category: Articles
Armistice Day, 1931
LAST year, for the first time, the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Life-boat was unable to take part in the Armistice Day Service on llth November. She was called out on service at 1.30 in the morning, and did not return for twelve hours.* In...
Category: Articles
Armistice Day, 11th November
The crew of the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston motor life-boat, with the vicar of Gorleston, about to embark for the service in memory of those who lost their lives at sea in the great war. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs