LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
New Draper, of Whitehaven
On the 9th February, the brig New Draper, of Whitehaven, lost her sails in a heavy gale, and was driven ashore near Wicklow harbour. The life- boat stationed there was quickly launched, and succeeded in taking off her crew, 8 in number, and...
Friends, of Lyne
At daylight on the 2nd Nov., during a very heavy gale, the schooner Friends, of Lynn, parted from her anchor and was driven ashore, three miles south of Bridlington Harbour. The Brid- lington life-boat was quickly conveyed on her...
Wonder
On the night of the 1st of May, the smack Wonder was swamped, off Teignmouth Harbour. The cries of her crew, 2 in number, were heard from the shore, but nothing could be seen from it, the night being very dark. The Teignmouth life-boat was...
Fishing Boats (1)
OCTOBER 25TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
The motor life-boat The Cuttle was launched at 11.40 A.M. as a strong north-easterly wind was blowing, with a rough sea, and a number of local fishing boats were at sea. She escorted the...
News from the Branches. 1st January to 31st March
Greater London.
CITY.—Annual meeting at the Mansion House, the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor in the chair. Amount collected in 1932 £6,241, as compared with £7,647 in 1931.
CLAPHAM.—Whist drive....
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Notes of the Quarter
THE December number of the Life-boat, recording as it does the happenings in the months of July, August and Septem- ber, invariably has a bulky section devoted to the detailed accounts of services by the life-boats, for it is in the summer...
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Sidelights on Stations
WHEN Miss Grace Monro gave £1,000 to be divided largely between the life-boat crews and helpers at Holy Island, North Sunderland, Penlee and Sennen Cove during 1964, the Holy Island crew decided to express their gratitude by sending her...
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"The Brotherhood of Man:" A Tribute to the Life-Boat Service
DUBIXG the war our life-boat men were condemned by some people because they rescued those, who (in the opinion of certain folk) should have been left to perish. Some of these angry people wrote letters to the papers to ask why the men who...
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Awards to St. Ives for the Service to the Alba
By a strange coincide the Hungarian Minister in London was notified by his government on the day of the disaster at St. Ives of the awards which it had made to St. Ives for the service to the Alba in January, 1938. Though the Alba was...
Category: Awards
'Wreck Raisers'
Mr. M. R. C. Parr, of Eycline Films Ltd., London, writes: 'The "Wreck Raisers", a film just completed for the Children's Film Foundation, features the friendly life-boat coxswain vho is also the magistrate as one of the...
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