STAITHES, YORKSHIRE.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently formed a Life-boat establishment at Staithes, near Whitby, where it was con- sidered that a Life-boat would be most useful, especially in helping the fishing boats, which...
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AT first thought, the manner of stowing a Life-boat's gear might not appear to be a matter of much, importance: that it is so, however, we shall have little difficulty in showing.
Even on the ample deck of a man-of-...
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Whitby, Yorkshire. At 8.50 a.m. on 13th November, 1965, conditions had become dangerous at the harbour bar and the fishing coble William and Martha was still at sea. The life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 9 o'clock in a moderate...
Charley Lloyd, the second RNLI lifeboat stationed at Thurso. - View image in PDF
Between 1871 and 1890 she saved 255 lives.. - View image in PDF
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IND COOPE and the Co-op have run a joint promotion in Scotland to raise funds for three D class lifeboats for service on Scotland's coasts. The first of the three, to be stationed at Stranraer, was handed over last March in George Square...
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Name of Donor or Testator. The late Mr. George Wooflndin
Amount of Gift or Legacy. 630
Date received. 1895
Object. For a George Woofndin Life-boat
How carried out....
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THURSDAY, 8th Jan., 1903.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
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Early warning saves three The eagle eyes and quick thinking of RNLI tractor driver Philip Eaglen helped to ensure that a father and his two sons were rescued before it was too late.
At 3.30pm on 2 September 2000, Philip was...
SCARBOROUGH, Thursday June 11, 1987: Scarborough's 37ft Oakley class lifeboat Amelia searches with the station's D class inflatable boat for a 13-year-old Grimsby schoolboy, swept from the Royal Albert Drive slipway by a large wave... - View image in PDF
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