LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
ROYAL BRITISH LEGION
The Deputy Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Commander F. R. H. Swann, O.B.E., and the Secretary, Captain Nigel Dixon, R.N., attended the British Legion 50th anniversary conference at the Royal Albert Hall, London, at the end of May when for the...
Category: Donations
Comrade and Royal Empire
Whitby, Yorkshire. — During the morning of the 19th September, 1938, anxiety was felt for the safety of two local fishing cobles—the Comrade and the Royal Empire—which were at sea.
A dense fog had settled and there was a...
Royal Humane Society Award
THE Royal Humane Society has awarded an " in memoriam" testimonial to relatives of the late George Hanson, formerly head launcher of the Runswick life-boat, who lost his life when going to the help of a schoolmaster and a number of...
Category: Awards
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THE Fortieth Anniversary of this excellent Society was held at the City Terminus Hotel on the 14th May, The EARL OF ABERDEEN, V.P., occupied the Chair on ' the occasion.
1 Amongst those present were— His Excellency the...
Category: Meetings
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...
The S.S. Royal Standard
During a thick fog, with a strong S.E. wind and choppy sea, on the 13th April, information reached the Coxswain of the Life-boat Matthew Middlewood that a steamer was signalling for assistance, apparently on the S. Smethic...
Royal Humane Society Award
POLICE Constable Robert Rutherford, who is a regular member of the Tynemouth life-boat crew, has been awarded the Royal Humane Society's testimonial on parchment for his part in the rescue of a 73-year-old man in January,...
Category: Awards
Royal Humane Society Testimonial
The Royal Humane Society has awarded a testimonial on parchment to Mr.
William Dryden, motor mechanic of the Whitby life-boat, for his rescue on 5th May, 1965, of a three year old girl who had fallen into the lower...
Category: Awards
Royal Aeronautical Society Award
FLIGHT SERGEANT B. BREACH, of No. 228 Squadron R.A.F., has been awarded the Alan Marsh medal for the rescue of the crew of five of the North Carr lightvessel in December 1959. It was after putting out in an attempt to render help to the...
Category: Awards
The Royal Sovereign Lightvessel
On the morning of the 1st December rockets were fired from the Royal Sovereign Light-vessel. The Life-boat put off, and on reaching the light-ship found that one of her crew had fallen from the shrouds attached to the shaft on which the...