LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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
An Aeroplane (25)
MARCH 27TH. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE. At 11.30 A.M. the coxswain received a telephone message from the RAF. that a Hurricane aeroplane had crashed into the sea opposite the South Promenade, about five miles west, and the motor life-boat Sarah...
Contents
Notes of the Quarter by the Editor .. .. .. .. .. 2 Profiles 4 Life-saving on the Shannon by M. Duffy .. .. .. .. 6 Letters 8 Royal Blue to the Rescue .. .. .. .. .. .. 10 Plymouth Exhibition .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 10 The RNLI looks at the...
Category: Contents
Stromness
OCT. 4TH. - ABERDEEN. In the evening the Bridge of Don coastguard reported that the steam trawler Stromness, of Aberdeen, had stranded on the beach, abreast of Broad Hill. The pulling surf life-boat Robert and Ellen Robson was taken by...
A Racing Yacht
Swanage, Dorset.—-At 7.20 in the evening, on the 2nd of September, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a small racing yacht with a crew of three was long overdue. It had last been seen four miles east of Peveril Point. At 7.40 the life-boat...
Whitby Lass and Foxglove
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 11.16 on the morning of the 15th of January, 1954,the coastguard telephoned that a fish- ing boat appeared to be in difficulties one mile north-west of the harbour.
At 11.25 the No. 1 life-boat Mary...
Life-Boat Services
LIFE-BOAT SERVICES.—During the late October storms the Life-boats belonging to the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION were successful in saving the lives of many persons on board shipwrecked and foundering vessels. The Pembrey (South Wales) Life...
Category: Services
Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
AT the Twenty-ninth Annual Meeting of the Committee of this Fund, held on the 17th January, and presided over by Mr.
CHAS. G. TURNER, C.B., Mr. CHAS. DIBDIN, the Honorary Secretary, reported that the number of the...
Category: Meetings
Moses Parry
HOLYHEAD. — Signals of distress were shown by the schooner Moses Parry, of Carnarvon, on the evening of the 13th October, the vessel, which was on a voyage from Youghal for Conway, having stranded on the end of the breakwater, in a fresh...
Sam Weller
During a moderate S.S.W. gale on the 27th January a vessel was observed by the Coastguard stranded on the main about two miles north of Palling. The crew and helpers were speedily called, and the Palling No. 1 Life-boat, 5ith West Norfolk...