LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

" At 2 A.M. on the 23rd October, the Lifeboat proceeded to the assistance of a schooner; bnt her services were not called into requisition. The boat regained her station at six o'clock, and had only been moored forty minutes when...

After the children of Bishop Goodwin Junior School, Carlisle, had worked for two weeks to raise a princely £372.03, it was only natural that Grace Dent, a distant relation of Grace Darling, should hand over the cheque. Receiving the... - View image in PDF

DEC. 13TH. - BLYTH, AND TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND, AND SUNDERLAND, DURHAM. An Admiralty drifter had been blown up by enemy action, but Blyth life-boat could find no survivors.

She was then directed to a position where...

REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.—On the 26th October, 1859, the coble Isabella, of Hartlepool, was seen in great danger off Redcar, the wind blowing a strong gale from N. by W., and a heavy sea running. The Institution's Redcar life-boat went off to...

Rescue of Bathers.

DURING the summer there have, been several unusual calls made upon Life- boats, and in four cases it has been found necessary to launch them to bathers in distress. At Sennen Cove, on the afternoon of...

APRIL 7TH. - BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE.

At 10.37 A.M. , the coastguard reported that a coble was in difficulties off Ulrome, eight miles south of Bridlington, and that she had put up a sail which had been blown away. The...

APRIL 16TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.At 3.13 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel was on fire, and at 4.20 A.M. the motor life-boat Caroline Oates Aver and William Maine was launched. The wind was light and the sea...

At 4 A.M. on the 21st March all the cobles put to t>ea for the purpose of hauling their crab pots.

At 7 A.M. the wind freshened, and it was considered advisable to launch the Life-boat Hollon the Third to their...