LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life Saving Equipment
In the last issue of the Lifeboat you were updated on the state of the RNLI rescue fleet. But this is not the full picture as it misses out major pieces of RNLI rescue equipment. Some have been around for years, some are new arrivals, but...
Category: Articles
Grace Darling's Niece
IT was announced in the Press on 15th April that Mrs. Grace Stokoe, the niece of Grace Darling, had just died at Newcastle. She was the daughter of Robert Darling, of Alnwick, and to her had been left, among other relics, Grace Darling's...
Category: Obituaries
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Category: Advertisement
Szpak
North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At 9.45 on the evening of the 1st of October, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Longstone lighthouse-keeper had reported that a vessel had hove to on or near...
Sophie
Humber, Yorkshire.—At about 3.40 A.M. on the 30th August the life-boat watchman reported a vessel ashore on the Inner Binks, but not in immediatedanger. A light breeze was blowing, with a smooth sea. The motor life-boat City of Bradford II...
High, but not dry
5 November 2011: Whitby’s D class lifeboat OEM Stone III sped to the cliffs west of Whitby Harbour, where two people cut off by the tide had tried to climb to safety and got stuck. A lifeboat crew member went...
Category: Articles
Whitby's D Class Inflatable
Whitby's D Class inflatable on the sen/ice referred to by Nick Botham, when she ferried a party of 27 school children and three teachers - who had been cut off by the tide - out to the station's 44ft Waveney.
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Category: Photographs
Victoria
On the evening of the 3rd October, a heavy gale blowing from the east, and a very high sea on the bar, a vessel was seen running for this harbour.
The Teigrimouth life-boat was immediately despatched to her assistance; but...
Jane and Ann
Shortly after noon on the 30th October a telephone message was received stating that a ship was showing signals of distress in Bhos Bay. The assembly signal was fired for the crew of the Life- boat, and the boat Theodore Price was promptly...
Charlotte Kilner
About 11 o'clock in the morning of the 6th July a ketch stranded on the Barber Sands. The accident was observed, and as the vessel failed to float off the No. 2 Life-boat Nancy Lucy was despatched to her assistance. There was a strong...