LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Awards to Coxswains and Members of Life-Boat Crews
The following coxswains and members of life-boat crews were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and in addition those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations were awarded an annuity or a retirement allowance and...
Category: Awards
A Spanish Steamer and The S.S. Pena Cabarga
On the evening of the 5th September, a Spanish steamer, when entering Blyth, collided with the s.s. Pena Cabarga, of Saiitancler, which was outward bound with a cargo of iron ore. The latter vessel nevertheless proceeded, but after getting a...
Lilian & The Motor Fishing Boats Irene and Faith
The Whitby Motor Life-boat Margaret Harker-Smith put out in a moderate N.E. breeze with a moderately rough sea at 12.50 P.M. on 15th December, as the sea was growing worse and some anxiety was felt for the small fishing-coble Lilian, which...
Pride of the Dee, Isabella and Maggie Brocklebank
HOLYHEAD.—During a gale of wind from the N.W. by W., and a very heavy sea on the 20th January, the No. 2 Lifeboat Joseph Whitworth was called out by signals of distress exhibited by two vessels lying in the outer anchorage which were...
Noel II, Venus, Galillee, Pilot Me and Success
Whitby, Yorkshire.—During the morning of the 15th November, 1937, the local motor fishing boats Noel II, Venus, Galillee, Pilot Me and Success were caught at sea by bad weather.
When they were seen approaching harbour the...
Two Irishmen, Mr. John Mcfadden and Mr. Michael Carr
Two Irishmen, Mr. John McFadden and Mr. Michael Carr, with the curragh in which they went out in a heavy sea, on 2nd September, 1932, and rescued two men whose curragh had capsized.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Motor Fishing Vessels Breadwinner, Orient and Dolly Graham
Eyemouth, and St. Abbs, Berwickshire.— At 10.7 in the morning, on the 24th of April, 1950, the Eyemouth life-boat authorities received a message from a Burnmouth fisherman that the motor fishing vessel Breadwinner, of Burn- mouth, was in...
Pilot Me, Success, Provider A and Lead Us
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the afternoon of the 30th of December, 1955, it was reported that four local fishing boats were still at sea. Conditions at the harbour bar were dangerous, and at 1.54 the no. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepworih was launched....
Centenary of the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THE Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society completed its first hundred years of work in February, 1939. The Institu- tion sent its cordial congratulations to the Society on its magnificent record of 897,801...
Category: Articles
The North Boatshed and Dock: Built In 1915
The North Boatshed and Dock: Built In 1915. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs