LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Five War-Time Veteran and Four Serving Lifeboatmen Pictured In Hyde Park During the 50th Anniversary Commemoration on 6 May 1995
Five war-time veteran and four serving lifeboatmen pictured in Hyde Park during the 50th anniversary commemoration on 6 May 1995. Back row: (left to right) Billy Burrell, Maurice Smith, John Miller, Mark Ford, Tony Bebbington and Albert... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mrs Ann Banner Mbe,
Mrs Ann Banner MBE, founder chairman of Billingham ladies guild.
Appointed chairman in 1980, she took over the dual role of chairman/treasurer in 1990. When the guild closed in 1996 Mrs Banner supported the Tees Endeavour...
Category: Obituaries
Nuncio
NEW BBIGHTON.—The steam-tug Hover came to the New Brighton stage at about 6 P.M. on the 5th October for the Lifeboat, as there was a ship in distress on the Little Burbo Bank. The Stuart Hay Life-boat was at once manned, taken in tow by the...
Focus on . . . . Sunderland
THE oldest existing life-boat station in England lies half-hidden behind a scrap metal yard on the Sunderland docks. The road to the life-boathouse twists and bends between low-lying warehouses and shipyard buildings towards the river Wear,...
Category: Articles
Salvenio, of North Shields
JULY 23RD. - CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 4.10 in the afternoon the Tynemouth coastguard telephoned that a motor boat was in difficulties several miles to the north-east of the Tyne piers. F i v e minutes later the...
Life-Boatmen In the Victory March
Twenty-four life-boatmen, from Walton-on-tlae-Naze, Clacton, Margate, Ramsgate, Walmer and Hastings, marched with the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy in the Victory March on June 8th. The life-boats of these six stations rescued 839 lives...
Category: Articles
J. Prizeman, of Plymouth
At about 8.30 P.M., the Life-boat was launched for the fourth time this day, and rescued the crew, consisting of four men and the master's wife, from the sloop J. Prizeman, of Plymouth, which had also stranded. This service was even more...
Ina, of Blyth
Blyth, Northumberland. — At about 11.50 A.M. on the 8th December, 1937, it was reported to the coxswain that the motor fishing boat Ina, of Blyth, with a. crew of two, was out fishing.
The weather had got worse since she...
Rapid, of Preston
Again, on the 20th Aug., during a south- westerly gale, the Life-boat proceeded to the schooner Rapid, of Preston, which had a signal flying for assistance, her sails being torn, and her anchors not holding.
On arriving...