LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Destruction of the Scarborough Life-Boat
IN the columns of each number of this Journal we have had the pleasure to record numerous instances of our life-boats' services to shipwrecked crews. When it is remembered under what difficult and dangerous circumstances those services...
Category: Articles
An Admiralty Drifter and Rosa (2)
DEC. 13TH. - BLYTH, AND TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND, AND SUNDERLAND, DURHAM. An Admiralty drifter had been blown up by enemy action, but Blyth life-boat could find no survivors.
She was then directed to a position where...
An Aeroplane (48)
NOVEMBER 30TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
An aeroplane had crashed into the sea on fire, but nothing could be found.- Rewards, £30 4s..
Notes of the Quarter
THE summer of 1959 has been officially described by the Meteorological Office as the driest since accurate records of rainfall began to be kept more than two hundred years ago, yet it was also the busiest summer the life-boat service has...
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Pictured at the Presentation of the Red Cross Awards
Pictured at the presentation of the Red Cross awards are (from left to right) David Wyatt of the British Red Cross Society), Staff Officer General Duties Richard Perks, John Burke-Gaffney (Director General of the British Red Cross Society)... - View image in PDF
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Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the February and March Meetings of the Committee of Management
For which Rewards were given at the February and March Meetings of the Committee of Management.
February Meeting.
F~ Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. — On the morning of the 8th January the fishing boat...
Category: Services
The S.S.. Glamorganbrook, of London
OCTOBER 11TH. - WHITBY, AND SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At 4.35 in the morning the Whitby coastguard reported a message from Cullercoats wireless station that the S.S.. Glamorganbrook, of London, bound for the Isle of Wight from Blyth, was...
Left: Enniskillen Lifeboat to the Rescue
Left: Enniskillen Lifeboat To The Rescue. - View image in PDF
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The Torbay Lifeboat Alec and Christina Dykes
The Torbay lifeboat Alec and Christina Dykes. - View image in PDF
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Crews and Supporters from Cumbrian Lifeboat Stations
Crews and supporters from Cumbrian lifeboat stations preparing to leave Barrow lifeboat station for their ride to Silloth.. - View image in PDF
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