LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Accounts of Services by Life-boats
JANUARY.
Launches 50. Lives Rescued 35.
JAN. 2ND. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
Early in the morning a number of fishing boats went to sea. At about 8.30 A.M. a N.E. gale sprang up and the sea...
Category: Services
A Fleet Air Arm Barracuda Aeroplane
SEPTEMBER 7TH. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE.
At 4.40 in the afternoon the St.
Anne’s coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea about three miles west-south-west of Squires Gate. A light north...
A Lifeboat Queen : 16-Year-Old Jane Wilson Was Crowned By Ronnie Hilton at Flamborough Ladies' Guild Gala In July With Her Are Three of Her Attendants Pat Wilkins
A lifeboat queen . ..: 16-year-old Jane Wilson was crowned by Ronnie Hilton at Flamborough ladies' guild gala in July. With her are three of her attendants, Pat Wilkinson and Bridget and Andrea Waud; the fourth attendant, Stephanie... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Fishwives of Cullercoats
It is not only to our Life-boat workers, that we are indebted for help in raising funds. Numbers of the men and women who take part in the sterner side of Life-boat work on the coast have given us generous help on the financial side as well....
Category: Articles
Computers Made Easy
“This is the best book on computing I’ve ever come across – and I’ve read a few! Now I’m getting the most out of my computer!” G Edwards, London “I keep your book right on my desk. Because whenever I’ve got a problem with using my computer –...
Category: Advertisement
Grace Darling's Coble. A Permanent Home at Bamburgh
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 90 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 104 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to 27th November, 1930 62,443 Grace Darling's Coble.
A...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
MKDAUJS IS SHOVVKI) 'BRAVKRV AM) KXPKKTISK Sailor rescued as yacht is driven on to lee shore The coxswain and helmsman of Whitby's two lifeboats, the 44ft Waveney White Rose of Yorkshire and the D class inflatable Gwynaeth, have both...
Category: Services
Signals of Distress
SIGNALS OF DISTRESS.
THE terrible loss of the Nbrthfleet, and of nearly 400 human beings, who had en- trusted themselves to her safe keeping, has strikingly indicated the need, which had often previously been felt, of some...
Category: Articles
Cullercoats Disaster. Six Lives Lost In a Capsize on a Practice Launch
JUST after two in the afternoon of 22nd April, the Cullercoats motor life-boat Richard Silver Oliver was launched on exercise. She is a boat of the light Liverpool type, 35 feet 6 inches by 10 feet 3 inches, weighing seven tons with her crew...
Category: Articles
Your Letters
Nearly saved . . . by a motor lifeboat I was interested in the feature 'Saved by a motor lifeboat', which appeared in the Winter 1996 issue of The Lifeboat.
There is an interesting story pertaining to this film - I...
Category: Correspondence