LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Aground Off the Cliffs of Dover
The Sovac Radiant, with the Dover life-boat and three tugs at work (See page 332). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Steam Life-Boat "Queen."
In the Life-boat Journal for November 1890, will be found a full description of j the first steam Life - boat, Duke of Northumberland, which boat has been' continuously "in commission," so to speak, since that year, first at...
Category: Articles
The Fisherman's Wife
WILL the storm ne'er blow over ? How the blast sweeps by the door! Broader and broader grows the line of white foam around the shore.
I sit cowering by the window, too sick at heart to pray; "Will the great God...
Category: Poetry
The S.S. Surreybrook
THIS account of a service by the Tynemouth life-boat in September, 1949, should have appeared among the services for that month in The Life-boat for December of last year.
On the evening of the 23rd of Sep- tember, 1949,...
Lizzie and the Laddie
ST. IVES.—Signals of distress having been shown by a vessel lying at anchor in the bay, while a strong gale was blowing from N.N.E. with a heavy sea, the Lifeboat Exeter was launched at I.d5 A.M.
on the 27th March. The...
The Henrietta
HARWICH.—At 6 P.M. on the 25th April, it was reported that a schooner was ashore on the Cork Sand. The Life-boat Springwell was immediately launched, and arrived at the Sand at about 8 P.M. The stranded vessel proved to be the Henrietta, of...
The S.S. Themsleigh
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 2.5 early on the morning of the 2nd of No- vember 1954, the Walton-on-the-Naze coastguard rang up to say that a mes- sage from the S.S. Themsleigh, of Hull, stating that she had run aground on the Gunfleet...
Mrs. Margaret Armstrong, of Cresswell
ANOTHER great figure on the North- East Coast has also passed away by the death on 2nd February last of Mrs.
Margaret Armstrong, of Cresswell. She was perhaps the best known of that devoted body of women who, in the little...
Category: Obituaries
The Duchess of Kent Naming the Tynesider
The Duchess of Kent Naming The Tynesider. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Visitors to Robin Hood's Bay, Whitby, Yorkshire, Are Often Attracted to This Large R.N.L.I. Codfish Collecting Box Which Stands at the Approach to the Beach. Mr. W. E. Russell Is the Honorary Volunt
Visitors to Robin Hood's Bay, Whitby, Yorkshire, are often attracted to this large R.N.L.I. codfish collecting box which stands at the approach to the beach. Mr.
W. E. Russell is the honorary volunteer emptier of this... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs