LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cromer (1)
CROMER, NORFOLK On the 26th October, 1941, the Cromer life-boat rescued the forty-four survivors of the crew of the S.S. English Trader, of London.
COXSWAIN HENRY G. BLOGG was awarded a third clasp to his silver...
Category: Medals
H.L Routh, of New York
Early on the morning of the 11th April, during a heavy gale of wind from W.N.W., the Robert William life-boat proceeded to the rescue of the crews of two vessels in distress off this place. On reaching the nearest vessel—the barque H. L....
Blanche
At 9.30 A.M.
on the 15th July the fleet of cobles belonging to Whitby were out fishing in a heavy ground swell. One of the cobles, with three men in her hanging on to their nets, was suddenly swamped by a heavy sea and sunk...
The H.M.S. Dryad
On the 21st October the Life-boat John A. Hay was launched in response to signals of distress from H.M.S. Dryad. A strong S.E. breeze was blowing at the time with a rough sea, and the weather was dark and showery. When the Life- boat reached...
The S.S. Cogent
A very thick fog having lifted somewhat about 10 o'clock in the morning of the 20th May, a steamer was sighted aground about half way to the outer part of the rocks off the pier. The No. 1 Life-boat, Robert and Mary Ellis, im- mediately...
Admiral Sir Wilfrid R. Patterson
K.C.B., C.V.O., C.B.E., who died on the 5th of December, 1954, at the age of 61, had been a member of the Com- mittee of Management for seven years.
He first joined the committee in 1947 as an ex-officio member when he was...
Category: Obituaries
Lady Margaret, Georgina II and Pandora B
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 11.30 on the morning of the 21st of September, 1952, the coxswain of the No. 1 life- boat reported that the motor pleasure launch Lady Margaret, of Middles- brough, had gone aground on the harbour bar. The tide was too...
None (1)
Two swimmers ALREADY OUT ON EXERCISE, On the evening of Tuesday, August 30, Port Talbot D class ILB remained afloat to cover an organised open water swim.
The wind was south west force 4, the sea rough and the tide flooding...
A Fishing Boat
Four launches OVER THE WEEKEND of September 16 and 17 Filey lifeboat, the 37ft Oakley Robert and Dorothy Hardcastle, launched on service three times and the station D class ILB once within the space of 26 hours.
The first...
Star of Hope and Silver Line
JANUARY 27TH. - RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE.
While the Staithes fishing fleet was out during the morning the weather worsened and by noon the sea was very rough, the wind had risen almost to a gale and it was snowing. There was a...