LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
(Below) Whitby Pulling Lifeboat
(below) Whitby pulling lifeboat Robert and Ellen Robson putting out to the help of a fishing boat. Robert and Ellen Robson remained on service at Whitby until 1957, and she is still housed in her old boathouse, which is now a museum. She is... - View image in PDF
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Hayling Island -- South Division
Hayling Island, on the coast of East Hampshire and connected to the mainland by a road bridge, has Portsmouth to its west, Chichester Harbour to the east and the English Channel on it's southern shores.
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Pauline May
At 10.57 A.M. on the llth September a boat- man at Frinton telephoned, through the Coastguard, that a small yacht was in difficulties off Frinton, and was flying a signal of distress. The Motor Life-boat E. M. E. D. was launched, and found...
Grace Darling
October 2oth was the centenary of Grace Darling's death, and a memorial service was held in the church at Bamburgh. Among the wreaths laid on the grave was one from the Institution. The B.B.C. made a record of the service to be broadcast...
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Pallion, of Sunderland
The last service rendered at the Caister Life-boat station in 1872 was that on the 10th Dec., by the Boys Life-boat, when she proceeded out, during a gale from E.N.E., to the aid of the brig Pallion, of Sunderland, which had been fouled by...
Grace Darling
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 1.25 on the afternoon of the 19th of October, 1952, the Formby coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat was burning a flare about one and a half miles north of Rossall Point, and at 1.40 the life-boat Ann Letitia...
Pulling Power
A team made up from members of the Huddersfield ladies hockey team pulled a D class lifeboat 19 miles and raised nearly £1,300 for the Honley and Brockholes branch.. - View image in PDF
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