LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 7. Major Herbert Edgar Burton, O.B.E., R.E., Hon. Superintendent of the Tynemouth Motor Life-Boat
No. 7. Major Herbert Edgar Button, O.B.E., RE., Hon. Superintendent of the Tynemouth Motor Life-boat.
No county in Great Britain has a finer record of Life-boat service than Northumberland. It was at Bamburgh, in...
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Queen of the Isles
At 11 P.M. on the 14th November signals of distress were shown by the schooner Queen of the Isles, of Carnarvon.
The wind was blowing a whole gale from the N.N.E., and a heavy sea was running.
The George...
Danube
WEST HARTLEPOOL.—On the 2nd April, 1881,at about 11 A.M.,on observing the brigantine Danube, of Guernsey, which was about to enter the Hartlepool East Harbour, hoist a flag of distress, the West Hartlepool No. 1 Life-boat Rochdale proceeded...
Fitz Clarence
During a dense fog on the 3rd March a boat came ashore at Walmerand reported thatalarge steamer was stranded on the Goodwin Sands.
The crew of the Life-boat Civil Service No. 4 was at once assembled and the boat launched at...
Katie
During a moderate S.W. gale on the 13th December, the schooner Katie, of Car- narvon, stranded to thenorthof Braunton Lighthouse and made signals of distress.
In response, the No. 1 Life-boat Jane Hannah MacDonald was...
Janet Anderson
On the 13th April the Life-boat was launched at 7.40 A.M. to the assistance of the fishing-boat Janet Anderson, of Gourdon, which being unable to return to her own port in consequence of a heavy sea made for Johnshaven. The Life-boat put a...
Bluebird
Dungeness, Kent.—A fisherman reported to the coxswain at 11.45 A.M.
on the 10th August that a yacht had been dismasted a mile south of Dungeness.
She was the Bluebird, bound for Portsmouth from Dover, with...
The lona
Margate, Kent.—At 7.25 in the even- ing of the 10th April, 1948, information was received from the Broadstairs police through the coastguard that a fishing boat was in difficulties about a mile off Kingsgate. The motor life-boat The Lord...
The Royal Bank of Scotland Plc
AFFINITY WITH Royal Bank of Scotland pic DO YOU USE A CREDIT CARD? If you do, or you are considering re-arranging your finances in any way you could be helping directly to fund the RNLI with every transaction you make.
Not...
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Focus on . . . Ilfracombe
When the maroons are fired at Ilfracombe, on the North Devon Coast, everyone has a good chance of seeing the new life-boat, Lloyd's II, which is kept in the life-boat house below Lantern Hill, going on its carriage through the heart of...
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