LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

NOVEMBER 16TH. - RUNSWICK, SCARBOROUGH, AND WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.

A British bomber aeroplane had been reported down some miles out at sea, and later it was reported that another bomber was down, but nothing was found by the...

Humber, Yorkshire.—At 7.22 on the evening of the 14th of November, 1954, the Spurn Point coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Caronte, of Rouen, which was at anchor one and a half miles south-cast of Spurn Point, had re- ported that she had a...

THUBSO, CAITHNESS-SHIRE.—A fierce W.N.W. gale sprang up shortly before midnight on the 6-7th January and increased as the night advanced. At about 1 A.M. the ketch Resolute, of New- castle, which was at anchor in the roads, made signals of...

THIS department of the Exhibition is, from the small number of exhibits dis- played in it, hardly calculated to advance the knowledge of the general observer, in the vast changes that have taken place in the form of both fighting and mer-...

Left to right : Ex-Coxswain Joseph O. Tomlinson, Coxswain Robert Harland, ex-Coxswain Richard Eglon, Coxswain Thomas William Welham, ex-Coxswain Thomas McGarry Kelly. Their total service is 217 years; their total ages 356 years.. - View image in PDF

On the 23rd July, the schooner Margaret Cunningham, of Whitby, was seen driving towards the Kettleness Reef, off the south point of Runs- wick Bay. It was blowing a gale from the N.N.E., and a heavy sea was running at the time. The life-boat...

Twenty years after...

• The date September 19, 1954 is indelibly written in my mind and may perhaps strike a chord with you. For my part I was one of the crew of the good ship Nicky which went aground on the Mere Rocks.<...

IN another column of the Life-boat Journal we give an account of the exceptionally fine service performed by the Gorleston Life-boatmen on the 29th March, which led to the Fifth Service Clasp being bestowed on Cox- swain Sidney Harris and...