LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

North Sunderland, Northumberland.— During the morning of the 30th of January. 1957, the fishing boat Kindly Light, of Seahouscs, was reported over- due. At 11.23 the life-boat Grace Darling was launched in a very rough sea. There was a...

North Sunderland, Northumberland.

At eleven o'clock on the night of the 14th May, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that the local fishing boat Harvest Queen had broken down and was in need of help. At 11.20...

A Kenny Ball Jazz Concert organised by Ilkley branch in aid of the Grace Darling Appeal was a sell-out, and raised almost £3,000 in conjunction with a Yorkshire Post appeal linked to the event. Although Kenny Ball has played at other... - View image in PDF

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- * folk.—At 2.40 A.M. on the 20th October, 1939, the Gorleston coastguard reported that a vessel north of the St.

Nicholas Light-vessel had fired distress signals. The light-vessel also...

WHEN raging seas the bark assail, And hope recedes before the gale, Who follow in the storm's fierce trail? The Life-boat's crew.

Who shrink not from destruction's throes, Nor quail before the dreadful blows,...

Port St. Mary, and Port Erin, Isle of Man. At 11.10 on the morning of the 23rd of December, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at Port St. Mary that fire had broken out on the lighthouse on Chickens Rock. It had been...

Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Bawtree of Porthleven have received a letter of thanks signed by the Chairman of the Committee of Management, Captain the Hon. V. M. Wyndham- Quin, R.N., for rescuing two boys who had been cut off by the tide at Gillan...

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...