LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 11.—Mr. James Hartley Burton, Honorary Secretary of the Beaumaris Life-Boat Station
ME. JAMES HARTLEY BURTON has been Honorary Secretary of a Life-boat Station, first at Penmon in Anglesey —the Station was closed in 1915—and then at Beaumaris, for over 20 years.
He has brought to the work a life-long...
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Around the Coast
Barrow branch has set itself the target of raising £26,000, the estimated cost of reengining and refitting its lifeboat, the 46' 9" Watson, Herbert Leigh. The halfway mark, £13,000, was passed last...
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Life-Boatman's Gallantry on the High Seas
Awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Humane Society for the bravest deed of the year. WHEN the trawler Sarepta of Lowestoft was returning from the fishing grounds on October 31st last, in heavy, squally and very cold weather, with a heavy sea...
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Mr. Benjamin Simons, of Sutton, Lincolnshire
By the death on 15th July, at the age of sixty-nine, of Mr. Benjamin Simons, of Sutton-on-Sea, Lincolnshire, the Institution has lost an honorary worker who has been associated with it for forty- three years. Mr. Simons was appointed...
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A Contrast
IT is a lovely morning in July, the morning after the Royal St. George's Regatta.
Kingstown Harbour is bright and beautiful with the taper masts and snowy canvas of a whole fleet of yachts. An " ocean race"...
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Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated fry Royal Charter.) FOUNDED IH 1824 —SUPPORTED SOLELY BX VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
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Life-Boat Services In 1895
Lives saved.
Advance, steamer, of Glasgow ... 3 Alnwick, schooner, of Beaumaris. . 3 Amelie, brig, of Frederickstadt... 9 Andola, ship, of Andola 28 Andrada, barque, of Liverpool— landed 19.
Aneurin,...
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Moss Bay (1)
Barrow, Lancashire; and Workington, Cumberland.—At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 18th of April, 1953, the YValney Island coastguard rang up the Barrow life-boat station to say that the steam hopper Moss Bay, of Workington, bound...
A Punt
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.10 onthe morning of the 15th of May, 1954, the life-boat The Lord Southborough, Civil Service No. 1, on temporary duty at the station, was launched to welcome the return of H.M. the Queen in...