LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Timbo, of Whitby
DURING the severe storms last December six Life-boat men lost their lives while on service. Five of them were members of the crew of the Life-boat at Rhoscolyn, in Anglesey, and the sixth belonged to the Boat at Johnshaven, in...
Wellington (1)
PLYMOUTH and YEALM RIVER.—On the night of the 28th of January the Plymouth Life-boat Clemency and the Yealm River Life-boat Bowman went out in reply to signals of distress shown by the barque Wellington, of Windsor, N.S. The wind was blowing...
Staithes Station Reopened
SINCE 1875 the Institution has maintained a Life-boat Station at Staithes, in Yorkshire, and its Life-boats have rescued 56 lives from shipwreck. In 1922, however, the Institution was compelled to close it, as there was considerable...
Category: Inaugurations
A Gallant Motor Mechanic
SHORTLY before half-past twelve on the afternoon of the 19th March the Swanage life-boat station received a telephone message from the coastguard that a small yacht appeared to be in difficulties oft Southbourne, some eight miles away. A...
Category: Services
Classified Advertisements
Entries under ACCOMMODATION are offered at the special rate of £7.00 for up to words, including address and phone number. Additional words at 30p per word, minimum ten words. Other Classifications are at 30p per word minimum ten...
Category: Advertisement
The Rye Memorial
THE memorial to the seventeen Life- boatmen of Rye Harbour—who lost their lives on 15& November, 1928, when the Life-boat, returning from service in a whole gale, capsized as she appeared to be coming into the harbour-mouth with a...
Category: Articles
Favourite and Enterprise
FRASERBURGH.—During a terrific gale from the N.W. and a heavy sea on the17th December, the ketch Favourite, of Sunderland, was observed at about 10 o'clock in the morning running towards Praserburgh from the Moray Firth with sails spent....
The Screw Steamer Benjamin Whitworth, of Middlesborough
On the 14th November both the Life- boats on the Caister station, as well as the Yarmouth No. 1 Life-boat, the Mark Lane, went off to the assistance of the screw-steamer Benjamin Whitworth, of Middlesborough, which had grounded on the Cross...
Augia and Lily
CAISTER.—On the 9th. November, at about 9.45 A.M., the barque Augia, of Guernsey, with her main top-gallant yard hoisted and her starboard bow stove in, was seen in the Cockle Gat, she having been in collision with a sloop off Orfordness.<...
Lucille
A motor boat named Lucille, belonging to the local Sea Scouts, left Piel about 10 A.M.
on the 20th August for a return trip to Fleetwood. She had not returned by 10.20 P.M., and no news could be got of her, so the Motor...