LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Cobles (1)
Twelve local fish- ing cobles put out early on the morning of the 7th December, in fair weather.
At 9.45 A.M. a strong east breeze was blowing, a heavy sea was running, and it was raining. Three cobles were seen making for...
Lyra
Hartlepool, Durham.—At 9.52 on the night of the 10th of July, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that the police had reported that a vessel had run ashore to the northward. At 10.6 the life-boat The Princess Royal, Civil Service No. 7 was...
Vellum for Cloughey
IN the last number of The Life-boat a full account was given of the rescue by the Cloughey life-boat of the seven men of the South Rock Lightvessel which was adrift in a gale. The Insti- tution made money awards amounting to £126 155....
Category: Awards
Petan
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—At 11.54 on the night of the 26th of July, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that the Lyn- well lightvessel had reported that a cabin cruiser had burnt a red flare a hundred yards from the lightvessel.
Flower Fantasy
The Cutty Sark Society has kindly agreed that the lower deck of the famous clipper Cutty Sark at Greenwich can be used as a setting for a Life-boat Fantasy in Flowers to raise funds for the R.N.L.I. The fantasy will consist of 20 flower...
Category: Donations
A Small Boat
Dungeness, Kent.—At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 13th of August, 1957, a report was received that a small boat appeared to be dragging her anchors one mile north-east of the station.
The boat was kept under...
Minnie
Workington, Cumberland.—At 4.35 on the afternoon of the 1st of November.
1953, the coastguard rang up to say that the dock police had reported that four youths had put off in the fishing boat Minnie, of Maryport, but that...
(Above) Mrs Pat Whittaker District Organising Secretary (Ne) Presents to Her Majesty Mrs Audrey Woore Chairman Hartlepool Headland Ladies Guild and (Below) Ge
(Above) Mrs Pat Whittaker, district organising secretary (NE), presents to Her Majesty Mrs Audrey Woore, chairman, Hartlepool Headland ladies guild and (below) General Farrant presents Sir William Gladstone, The Chief Scout, and a Scout... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Alethea
Holyhead, Anglesey. At 6.32 on the morning of the 25th of October, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen two miles north-east of Holyhead. At 6.46 the life-boat St. Cybi (Civil Service No. 9) put...
Raycrest
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 5.15 on the evening of the 14th of December, 1956, a message was received from the coastguard that flares had been seen near the no. 1 Sea Reach buoy.
At 5.40 the life-boat Greater London II...