LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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On 28th to 29th October, the night following the service of the St. Mary's Life-boat, the gales reached their worst, striking with special violence on the coast of North Wales and Lancashire.
That night nine Life-boats...
Alarm Given By a Train
JUST after midnight of 28th April, the driver and fireman of a railway train entering Berwick-on-Tweed reported that they had seen signals of distress close in shore. The railway station rang up the Coast Guard, who informed the Life-Boat...
Category: Services
Vrede
ATTEMPTING TO SALVE A DUTCH STEAMER The Humber, and Bridlington, Yorkshire.
—At about 10.30 in the morning of February 21st, 1947, the master of the motor vessel Vrede, of Rotterdam, which had gone ashore four miles...
The S.S. English Trader (1)
SILVER AND BRONZE MEDAL SERVICES AT CROMER AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON OCTOBER 26TH - 27TH. - CROMER, AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. About eight in the morning a message came from the Cromer coastguard that the Yarmouth...
On the Connection Between the Recent Gales of Wind and the Reading of the Barometer
By JAMES GLAISHER, Esq., F.R.S.
THE variations in the readings of the barometer at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich which are delineated in the annexed diagram include a period of forty days, or from 27th October to 5th...
Category: Articles
South Coaster
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT BARRY DOCK DECEMBER 6TH. - BARRY DOCK, GLAMORGANSHIRE. During the morning a whole gale was blowing from the north-west at Barry Dock on the south coast of Wales, and at 10.30 the life-boat station received news from...
The Fundraisers
Gala brings history alive Two stars of the popular television series Heartbeat, helped draw the crowds at Whitby's lifeboat gala, over the weekend of the 29 and 30 July, when they performed a champagne launch on the town's restored...
Category: Articles
New Life-Boats
WHITBY No. 1 AND UPGANG, YORK- SHIRE.—The Life-boats at these Stations •which had done duty for many years have been replaced by new boats of the modern self-righting type. The Whitby No. 1 boat is named Robert and Mary Ellis, as was her...
Category: Inaugurations
The Twenty Branches With the Highest Collection
WE publish on page 17 a table showing the twenty Branches which made the largest contributions to the Institution during the financial year ending the 30th September, 1929.
The total sum raised by these twenty Branches was...
Category: Branches
Safe Return, Mary Frances, Glance and Green Flag
ARKLOW, IRELAND.—Several fishing boats having been driven from their moorings on the morning of the 16th October, the Out Pensioner Life-boat was launched at 9 o'clock, and saved four large boats, the Safe Return, Mary Frances, Glance,...