LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Miss B Openshaw
MAY 1989: Miss B. Openshaw, committee member of Penwortham branch for more than 20 years..
Category: Obituaries
Crusier, of Hartlepool
On the 3rd December, in a fresh gale and heavy swell, with falls of snow and sleet, a brig was observed, apparently near the Goodwin Sands, with a signal of distress in the main rigging, and soon afterwards she was seen to cut away both...
A Flying Boat
St. Marys, Scilly Isles.—13th Octo- * ber, 1939. The coastguard had re- ported a message from the R.A.F. that a flying boat had come down approx- imately fifty miles to the west of Scilly Isles, but shortly after the life-boat was launched...
Arranmore
ARRANMORE, CO. DONEGAL On the 7th December, 1940, the Arranmore life-boat rescued the eighteen survivors of the S.S. Stolwijk, of Rotterdam.
COXSWAIN JOHN BOYLE was awarded the gold medal.
MOTOR MECHANIC...
Category: Medals
Robert Barr Obe,
Robert Barr OBE, whose charitable trust funded the St Abbs Atlantic 21 lifeboat Dorothy and Katherine Barr..
Category: Obituaries
Teesmouth's Tyne Class Phil Mead
Teesmouth'sTyne class Phil Mead (seen here in the 1990s) has been withdrawn after 21 years' s. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Alfheim
On the afternoon of the 24th February a vessel was observed to run ashore close to Kings- down. The crew of the Life-boat Charles Hargrave were assembled, and with the assistance of the haul-off warp the boat was launched, and proceeded to...
Three Medals for Fraserburgh.
In the early morning of 23rd. September the Fraserburgh lifeboat was called out. Only the day before the coxswain had been called to the Navy, and Captain Andrew Stephen, honorary secretary of the station took command.
A...
Category: Articles
S.S. Storfors
FEBRUARY 28TH . - AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND.
The Swedish S.S. Storfors, of Uddeholm, had been sunk in collision, and her crew had taken to the boats. They were seen to overturn, but. only an overcoat was found. Later it was...
A Gallant Young Corporal
THE Institution has sent a framed letter of thanks and £1 to Corporal David Aitken, a 15-year-old member of the Glasgow Jewish Lads' Brigade Cadets, for bravely helping to save a woman who fell into the Tweed last...
Category: Articles