LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Jeff Morris, the honorary archivist of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts' Society is a prolific source of booklets on individual lifeboat stations and historical lifeboat matters. Few issues of THE LIFEBOAT pass without an opportunity to review...
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Awards to Honorary Workers
DURING April, May, June and July the following awards were made to Honorary Secretaries of Branches, and to other honorary workers in recogni- tion of their services in the cause of the Institution:— To Mr. S. J. R. LEGEHTON, on his...
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The S.S. Richmond Queen
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 7.45 on the morning of the 23rd of May, 1953, the Aldeburgh coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Richmond Queen, of London, had a sick man on board and needed a doctor. She was making for Aldeburgh and was due at...
Express
FISHING BOAT BROKEN DOWN Flamborough, Yorkshire.—-At one o'clock in the morning of the 9th of May, 1947, the Bridlington coastguard reported that a fishing boat was over- due and the motor life-boat Elizabeth and Albino, Whitley was...
The Motor Fishing Vessels Lead Us and Provider A
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 3rd of November, 1956, the motor fishing vessels Lead Us and Provider A had put out to the fishing grounds. By the time they were due to return to harbour the weather had deteriorated considerably,...
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St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 8.40 a.m. on 27th September, 1965, the coxswain received a message from Trinity House asking if he would take off a badly burnt man from the South Bishop lighthouse in his own boat. On reaching the...
William and Martha (1)
Whitby, Yorkshire - At 8.50 a.m. on 24th May, 1966, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that a heavy swell was building up on the bar and that at least one of the smaller cobles was at sea.
The life-boat Mary Ann...
The Sail Training Ship Malcolm Miller
Sick watch-leader evacuated from sail training ship WHILE St Helier's Tyne was away for engine repairs (see story page 4) the relief Waveney Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse I! was involved in a medical evacuation from the 130ft sail...
The S.S. Suffolk, of London
LlZARD AND CADGWITH. The S.S. Suffolk, of London, 2,900 tons, bound from Baltimore for London, with a cargo of flour, tobacco, &c., and having a large number of cattle on board, struck the rocks at the Lizard Head during a dense fog at 4...