LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Finance In 1941.: Expenditure.
Expenditure in 1941 was £279,225. That was £11,505 less than in 1940.
It was £105,150 less than in the last year of peace. The reason is that the building of new life-boats has now almost ceased. Only one new...
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Fifty Medals for Gallantry (11)
On the 2nd December, 1939, the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston life-boat rescued the crew of ten of the steam trawler Resolvo, of Grimsby, on Admiralty Service.
COXSWAIN CHARLES A. JOHNSON was awarded a second clasp to his...
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Heart and home
Behind the scenes, a lifeboat station mechanic must be both meticulous and creative to keep the service running – and his fellows safe
Mark Blatcher is poring over wiring diagrams. He’s trying...
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Additional Life-Boat Stations
Fully impressed as we are with the conviction that more life-boat stations, and improved organization of the boats already established, are the two most pressing wants on our coasts, we are gratified to be able to announce that since the...
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Our Late Secretary
With the deepest sorrow we have to announce that Mr. Charles Dibdin, the Secretary of the Institution, died, after a long illness, on the 7th June. Mr. Dibdin was born on the 9th October, 1849, and was thus in his sixty-first year. He was...
Category: Obituaries
Japan
A LIFE-BOAT service much on the same lines as our own is now being established in this wonderful country under the patronage of one of the Royal Princes.
For this purpose information has been sought from and gladly...
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JANUARY 4TH. - AITH, SHETLANDS.
On the 2nd January, Dr. Cruickshank, of Walls, telephoned that the Queen’s District Nurse on Foula Island was dangerously ill and would have to be taken to the...
An Aeroplane (31)
SEPTEMBER 6TH. - HASTINGS AND EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX. At 12.40 in the afternoon information was received from the coastguard and the police that an aeroplane was down in the sea. A fresh W.S.W. wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The...
A Vessel (3)
Holy Island and North Sunderland, Northumberland.
—Early on the morning of the 28th February the coastguard reported to the Holy Island life-boat station that a vessel was in distress in Goswick Bay. A north-easterly...
Death of a Head Launcher
EARLY on the evening of the 28th of August, 1957, a schoolmaster went to the harbour at Staithes in Yorkshire with a number of his pupils to bathe.
There was a light north-westerly wind blowing, and outside the harbour the...
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