LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Schooner
SEPTEMBER 27TH. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND. A motor schooner had grounded, but she refloated and after she had drifted for a time her anchor held and she did not need the services of the life-boat.
- Rewards, £30 15s..<...
A Steamer (43)
DECEMBER 6TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. A steamer sailing in convoy was reported to need help, but her exact position could not be obtained, visibility was bad and nothing Lightcould be found. - Rewards, £7 3s....
From America.
America too, is helping the British Life-boat Service. A lady in California, who had been "thrilled indeed to read of the heroic deeds of those saving lives around dear old England" sent £49. 9. A gift of £6. 13 has come...
Category: Articles
A Gift of Daffodils
LAST year a doctor in Market Weighton, Yorkshire, cut and sold his bed of daffodils and 'gave the money, over £19, to the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. He has done the same this year, and it has brought the Guild another...
Category: Donations
Jan Schaub of Cleveland, Ohio
Jan Schaub of Cleveland, Ohio hopped on a plane and gave the Whitby appeal a surprise cash boost.
Jan is pictured with Whitby Station Treasurer Geoff Cooling, Mechanic Glen Goodberry and Second Coxswain John... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Teddington (1)
OCTOBER 1ST - 22ND. - CROMER, NORFOLK. During the month both of the Cromer life-boats were launched several times and gave help to the S.S. Teddington, which had stranded after enemy attack in September.
For details see...
A Speed Boat
JULY 28TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. A man who had put out in a speed-boat was reported as missing, but he had returned safely. - Rewards, £10 11s..
When the New 47Ft Tyne Class Fas! Slipway Lifeboat City of London
When the new 47ft Tyne class fas! slipway lifeboat, City of London came up the Thames for her official naming, it was also an ideal opportunity for some of the children of Thomas's School, Kensington, to hand over the money that they had... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Madge
At about half-past eleven on the night of the 6th August the coastguard reported signals of distress from the direction of the Battery Rocks. The sea was rough with a strong tide running, and a moderate N.N.W. breeze was...
A Motor Rescue Dinghy
MAY 5TH . - WELLS, NORFOLK. A motor rescue dinghy had been dropped from an aeroplane to airmen whose aeroplane had come down in the sea and who had got away in their rubber dinghy. The motor dinghy took the other dinghy in tow. This is...