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Hannah, of Drobak

Date: August 1871

Volume: 08

Issue: 81

At day- break on the llth November, the barque Hannah of Drobak, Norway, drifted out of the Humber, during a strong wind from the N.W., accompanied by snow and sleet, the weather having been very stormy during the night. Eventually the...

The Greek Cargo Vessel Stelianos

Date: December 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 410

GREEK VESSEL AGROUND At n.20 p.m. on 6th September, 1964, a message was received over the radiotelephone from Humber radio station that a small vessel, aground half a mile from Spurn Point, was asking for assistance.

The...

The Dowsing Lightvessel

Date: June 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 420

Humber, Yorkshire - At 7.53 a.m.

on 6th February, 1967, news was receivedreceived that there was a sick man on the Dowsing lightvessel who needed to be taken ashore. The life-boat City of Bradford HI was launched at 8.45...

Venture

Date: December 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 422

Humber, Yorkshire - At 9.25 p.m.

on 8th July, 1967, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a yacht was in difficulties near the Chequer shoal. The life-boat City of Bradford HI was launched in a strong...

Coxswain Cross Again.

Date: March 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 11

Coxswain Robert Cross, of the Humber, has won the Institution's gold medal for the second time since the war began. He has won it for rescuing the crew of a trawler which had stranded on a sandbank in a gale. There were heavy snow...

Category: Articles

36 Years a Coxswain

Date: March 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 19

Coxswain George Parkhill, of .Kirkcudbright, has retired on account of illhealth.

The Institution has awarded him a certificate of service and, at his own choice, a gratuity in lieu of a pension. He is 59, and was appointed...

Category: Articles

Kopenes

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

SEPT. 22ND. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.

At 8.45 P.M. the Royal Naval Shore Signal Station reported that red flares had been seen in an easterly direction. A fresh northerly wind was blowing, with a very rough sea. At 8.48 P.M...

Accounts of Services by Life-boats

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

JANUARY.

Launches 50. Lives Rescued 35.

JAN. 2ND. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.

Early in the morning a number of fishing boats went to sea. At about 8.30 A.M. a N.E. gale sprang up and the sea...

Category: Services

Lytham-St.Anne's Sunday June 2 1985:

Date: Spring 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 492

Lytham-St Anne's, Sunday June 2, 1985: the Reverend John Carlisle, chaplain of Lytham-St Anne's lifeboat station blesses with holy water the 47ft Watson class lifeboat, The Robert. The re-dedication ceremony for this lifeboat, newly... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Cover Picture

Date: Winter 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 535

COVER PICTURE by Alan Richardson Montrose's D class lifeboat Holme Team 3 takes flight while on service to the Arbroath fishing vessel Radiant Star onll November 1995.

Next Issue: The Summer issue of THE LIFEBOAT will... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs