LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Record Collecting Box
LAST December the Institution received from Mr. F. 0. Brown, of Bedford Park, London, a cheque for £28 10s., the amount which he had collected during the year in his Life-boat box. At the same time, he said that owing to ill- health...
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Mr. William Robson
For over twenty years a member of the Kirkcudbright life-boat crew.
(From an etching by the Cumberland artist, Mr. Joseph Simpson.).
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Kayak
Humber, Yorkshire.—At three o'clock on the morning of the 30th of May, 1955, the Spurn Point coastguard rang up to say that a man had reported that the yacht Kayak, of Beverley, had gone ashore between Spurn Point and Kilnsea at one...
A British Aeroplane (1)
MAY 12TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
At about 6.42 P.M. the coastguard reported an explosion eight to ten miles N.E. by 1/2 E. of Buckie, and the motor life-boat K.B.M.
was launched at 7.9 P.M. A strong...
Knola
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 10.30 on the night of the 28th of July, 1956, the St. Peter Port signal station re- ported that a yacht was on the rocks in Saint Bay. The life-boat Euphro- syne Kendal put out at 10.54 with the bowman in charge....
Eventide (1)
Newbiggin, Blyth, Amble and Tynemouth, Northumberland - On 5th August, 1966, life-boats from these stations carried out a search for the missing fishing coble Eventide whose crew of three - a father and two sons - were all at some time...
None (2)
Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 12.22 in the afternoon of the 27th of February, 1949, the medical officer of health, telephoned that there had been an acci- dent in Unst, and a man must be taken to hospital at once. A strong northerly gale was...
Sea Lion
Ramsey, Isle of Man. At 10.20 on the night of the 10th of May, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that red flares had been seen off Manghold Head. At 10.45 the life- boat Thomas Corbett was launched in a moderate sea....
Viking
Two saved after ten-hour service in south westerly gale Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's Waveney class lifeboatBarham was involved in an arduous, ten-hour service to a yacht on 10 July 1988. The service, in gale force conditions, has been...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston
GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK On the 6th August, 1941, the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston life-boat rescued the crew of twenty-three of the S.S. Aberhill, of Methil.
COXSWAIN CHARLES A. JOHNSON was awarded the silver...
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