LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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The Hartlepool Yacht Kittiwake
Redcar, Yorkshire.—At two o'clock in the afternoon of the 4th of June, 1949, the life-boat Louisa Polden was launched for exercise in a west-north- west wind, with a swell, and saw the Hartlepool yacht Kittiwake passing, bound for Whitby...
The S.S. Eddie, of Fraserburgh
DECEMBER 10TH. - BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. At 11.45 on the night of the 9th of December, the coastguard reported a vessel firing distress signals three miles north-east of Flamborough Head. A strong north-west wind was blowing, with a heavy...
Into the Archives
Throughout the RNLI's history the Annual Presentation of Awards has always made national news. Many supporters would have heard of a Medal for Gallantry or a Badge for voluntary work but Barry Cox, RNLI honorary librarian, has been...
Category: Articles
War Services of the Institution
THE Secretary of the Institution is compiling a record of the War Services rendered by the Life-boats and by members of the staff of the Institution.
He would be grateful to Honorary Secretaries, especially of Station...
Category: Services
A Yacht Tender
Tender capsizes EIGHT PEOPLE set out in a yacht tender from Donaghadee in the early evening of Monday July 13, 1981, to return to a motor cruiser anchored just outside the harbour. As the tender, which had very little freeboard, left the...
The Fishwives of Cullercoats
The fishwives of Cullercoats last year collected £259. One fishwife, Mrs.
B. Mattison, alone collected over £258 of that total, a record sum for one collector; and the Institution has since had £ig from the R...
Category: Articles
Magdalen and the Star of Peace,
MONTROSE, N.B.—At about midnight on the 4th January it was reported that two of the large fishing-boats were ashore on the Annat Bank. The Mincing Lane Life-boat was at once manned by a crew of fishermen, and proceeded to their...
Vale of Nith, of Liverpool
On the morning of the 16th Nov., the services of the tubular Life-boat were re- quired by a large barque ashore on the West Middle Line. She proceeded out at once, and, at the request of the master, remained alongside the stranded vessel,...
An American Fighter Aeroplane
SEPTEMBER 11TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. An American fighter aeroplane had come down in the sea off Worthing, but the pilot saved himself in his own dinghy. - Rewards, £8 1s..