LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Restless, of Peterhead
The same life-boat also rescued 6 men from the schooner Bestlett, of Peter- head, which became a total wreck on Has- borough Sands.
Royal National Life Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated by Royal Charter.) Founded 4th March, 1824,—Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.
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Betty, of Cork
Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 12.50 in the afternoon of the 12th of September, 1949, the chairman of the Youghal life- boat station telephoned that he was anxious for the safety of his son and another man who had left Youghal for Cork in...
Ashdene, of Sunderland
Amble, Northumberland - At 1.14 a.m. on i5th July, 1967, it was learnt that a sick man aboard the motor vessel Ashdene of Sunderland required urgent medical assistance. The life-boat Millie Walton, with a doctor on board, slipped her...
Tennant, of Stockton
On the 5th January, the brig Tennant, of Stockton, ran on shore, in a severe snow-storm, on the Newcome Sand.
She was quickly seen from the shore, and the Lowestoft life-boat was immediately manned and launched, under the...
Award of a Gold Watch
MR. DAVID EVANS, who is second mate of the tanker Pass of Balmaha, has been presented with a gold watch and scroll by the Bulk Oil Steamship Co. Ltd., in recognition of his gallantry in diving overboard while the ship was in the Firth of...
Category: Awards
The Institution and the Coronation
Spithead Review FOUH life-boats took part in the Coronation Review of the Fleet by Her Majesty the Queen at Spithead on the 15th of June, 1953. Two of the life-boats were the new Campbeltown and Flamborough boats, City of Glas- gow II and...
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The Life-Boat Disasters at Southport and St. Anne's
SINCE the publication of the last number of the LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL, terrible disas- ters have befallen the crews of the Life- boats at Southport and St. Anne's, on the coast of Lancashire, the full details of which are given in the...
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On 927 Grace Darling, Part of the National Lifeboat Collection and Now at the Historic Dockyard In Chatham Awaiting Display to the Public Again.
ON 927 Grace Darling, part of the national lifeboat collection and now at the Historic Dockyard in Chatham awaiting display to the public again.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fifteen Months of War.
In the first fifteen months of war life-boats rescued 2754 lives.
They rescued more lives in these fifteen months of war than in the last seven years of peace. They have rescued on an average 42 lives a week. In the war of...
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