LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Admiralty Trawler Moray and Empire Ned (1)
DECEMBER 13TH - 14TH. - DUNMORE, EAST, CO. WATERFORD, AND KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD. Just before half-past five in the evening the coast watcher at Hook Point telephoned to the Dunmore East station that a vessel was off the Hook showing flares....
The Aberdeen Steam Trawler Newhaven N.B.
May, Inner Hebrides.—At 10.15 in the morning of the 2nd of April, 1949, while the life-boat was carrying out a wireless test from the station with the Kilchoman coastguard, she heard a distress call from the Aberdeen steam trawler Newhaven N...
(Left) Flag Day Supplies: There Is a Constant Flow of Collecting Boxes Flags and Publicity Material to and from Branches and Guilds In the South South West and Midlands
(Left) Flag day supplies: there is a constant flow of collecting boxes, flags and publicity material to and from branches and guilds in the south, south west and midlands.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
John Pearson, Crew Member of Whitby's All Weather and Inshore Lifeboats Since 1987.
John Pearson, crew member of Whitby's all weather and inshore lifeboats since 1987.
John was awarded a Bronze medal in 1993 in recognition of his high standard of seam a n s h i p , boathandling skills and bravery when... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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ANOTHER SNOW-BOUND TOWN HELPED Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—On the 14th of March, 1947, when the Portpatrick district was snowbound and food was short, the motor life-boat Jeanie Spiers went to Stranraer to fetch bread and other provisions....
NORTH OF ENGLAND AND ISLE OF MAN: Community news
Dewsbury
YOUTH DIVE IN TO DROWNING PREVENTION
In 2017, Kumon Y’all, an organisation mobilising young Muslim people to give back to the community, approached the RNLI to seek safety advice for an upcoming...
Category: Articles
Whitby: the Lifeboat Station and Her People By Joan Davies
A HAVEN OR REFUGE on a dangerous coast along which small sailing ships in their hundreds once traded between London and the north; a commercial port for small merchant ships; a harbour for boats fishing the unpredictable North Sea; now a...
Category: Articles
Stakesly Rose, Success, Pilot Me and Lead Us
Whitby, Yorkshire. On the after- noon of the 22nd of January, 1959, the coxswain was informed that four local fishing boats were still at sea. As there was a big fresh coming down the river and a strong northerly wind was blowing, it was...
Provider A, Success, Lead Us and Pilot Me
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 2.20 on the afternoon of the 14th of November, 1956, the skipper of the fishing boat Provider A reported that there were heavy seas on the harbour bar and that his own vessel had had great difficulty in reaching the...
Ramlah, Royal Empire, Sarah, Guide Me and Margaret
APRIL 22ND. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At 7.30 A.M. anxiety was being felt for the safety of some of the fishing cobles, as a very strong N.N.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea. As both life-boat coxswains, and a number of the...