LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Effort
BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND. — The Life-boat Sobin Hood of Nottingham was launched at 12.30 A.M. on the 31st December, and rescued the crew, consisting of two men, from the smack Effort, of Berwick, which had stranded on the North Steel Bocks...
Effrontery of Stonehaven and Snowdrop of Torry
On the 9th May the fishing-luggers Effrontery of Stonehaven and Snowdrop of Torry were in distress in a moderate gale from the N. and a heavy sea. The Life-boat was launched at 8.30 A.M. and escorted the boats into the harbour..
James Cable
Coxswain at Aldeburgh 1888 to 1917. Three times awarded the Institution's Silver Medal for gallantry in rescuing life from shipwreck. Holder of the Royal Humane Society's Silver Medal, and three times awarded its Thanks on Vellum,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Control Board
A closer view, with the engine-hatch open, showing the engine-room and the two 35-h.p. petrol engines. - View image in PDF
These two photographs are of the 41-feet Watson life-boat Mary Ann Hepwortli, stationed at Whitby in 1938.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Rubber Mattress (1)
Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumber- land. At 1.45 on the afternoon of the 17th of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a girl had drifted out to sea on a rubber mattress four and a half miles south of Berwick. At...
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On the 8th of December, 1954, three members of the crew of the Scar- borough life-boat lost their lives when the life-boat capsized at the entrance to the harbour. For a full account of this accident see page 9..
Various Boats
Cromer, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—During the gale on the East Coast on the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th November, the motor life-boats at Cromer and Great Yarmouth received seven calls for service.— Rewards £106 18*. (For...
In October 1968 the Chairman of the RNLI Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods GBE KCB DSO and Deputy Chairman Cmdr F R H Swann OBE RNVR Inspected
In October, 1968, the Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., and Deputy Chairman, Cmdr. F. R. H. Swann, O.B.E., R.N.V.R., inspected the life-boat at Aberdeen in the course of a tour of Scottish life-boat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Dinghy
New Brighton, Cheshire - At 8.50 p.m.
on ist June, 1966, a message was received that a dinghy had capsized in the Rock Channel off Harrison Drive. The life-boat Norman B. Corlett left her moorings at 9 o'clock in a...
Miss G M Milburn
JULY 1988:Miss G. M. Milburn, donor of the Waveney class lifeboat The White Rose of Yorkshire and the D class lifeboat Gwynaeth, both stationed at Whitby.William Pritchard, coxswain of Beaumans lifeboat until his retirement in 1980.
Category: Obituaries