LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Margaret Ann
Flamborough, Yorkshire. At nine o'clock on the morning of the 27th of November, 1960, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that the local fishing coble Margaret Ann was at sea. There was a strong north-easterly wind with a rough sea,...
Star Song
RESCUE FROM YACHT AT THIRD ATTEMPT Humber, Yorkshire. At 10.27 on the morning of the 16th February, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a yacht was in •difficulties two miles north-east-bynoith of Grimsby. The life...
A Dinghy (2)
PROTOTYPE LIFE-BOAT'S FIRST SERVICE Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At a quarter to midnight on Tuesday the 17th September, 1963, the Needles coastguard reported to the coxswain that two boys had been missing on Tennyson Down since 5.45 that...
Walton and Frinton
WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX On the 19th January, 1941, the Walton and Frinton life-boat rescued the crew of three of the sailing barge Martha, of Rochester.
COXSWAIN THOMAS H. BLOOM was awarded the bronze...
Category: Medals
Arbroath
ARBROATH, ANGUS On the 9th February, 1940, the Arbroath life-boat rescued the seven survivors of the crew of the hopper Foremost 102, of Aberdeen.
COXSWAIN WILLIAM SWANKIE was awarded the bronze medal..
Category: Medals
A Year of War.
In the first year of war life-boats were launched to the rescue 1108 times and rescued 2302 lives. They rescued more lives in this one year of war than in the last five years of peace. They rescued on the average 44 lives a week. In the last...
Category: Articles
Cuba of Whitby
On the night of the 25th October, at 9 P.M., the brig Cuba, of Whitby, was driven ashore in a heavy gale off Winterton.
The life-boat was got ready soon after mid- night, but the night being dark, and the sea very heavy,...
Royal Rose, of Whitby
On the 21st De- cember the barque Royal Hose, of Whitby, bound to Leith with a cargo of wheat, having sprung a leak during a north-easterly gale, ran on shore on the Whitby Sands, the smaller life-boat belonging to the Institution was with...
Thomas
PENMON, ANGLESEY.—A schooner having been seen to run aground on the Dutchman's Bank during a N.W. wind and rough weather on the 20th August, the crew of the Life-boat were summoned, and the Life-boat, placed here temporarily while the...
Fishing Boats (1)
On the 21st April the No. 1 Life-boat Augusta was launched at 11.45 A.M., some of the fishing-boats having been overtaken by a strong gale from the S.S.E., a heavy sea breaking on the bar ; the weather was very thick and rain was falling at...