Arduous service for two lifeboats called to Ro-Ro ferry in severe weatherCoxswain David Kennett of Yarmouth lifeboat has been awarded the Institution's Bronze medal for gallantry for the rescue of two men from a merchant vessel in winds...
Fishing boat aground THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Peel lifeboat station was informed by Ramsey Coastguard at 0145 on Saturday March 29 that the motor fishing vessel Southern Scott was aground on Old Bath's Beach just to the north east of...
JUNE 28 TH . - ST, PETERPORT, GUERNSEY, On 26th of June the honorary secretary at St Helier, Jersey, telephoned to the Institution that he was unable to get a crew to take his life-boat to Cowes, which it had been arranged that he should do,...
Long hours at sea THE CARGO VESSEL Gladonla, broken down and drifting 34 miles east of Lowestoft, was reported to the honorary secretary of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston lifeboat station by Yarmouth Coastguard at 0850 on Tuesday January 3,...
SIDMOUTH, DEVONSHIRE. At about 8.40 P.M. on the 22nd March, 1939, an aeroplane came down in the sea off Sidmouth. A westerly wind was blowing with gusts at thirty miles an hour and sleet showers. The sea was choppy. The Exmouth life-boat,...
Category: Services
Honorary Life-Governor.
The following have been appointed Honorary Life-Governors of the Institution and will be presented with a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum and signed by H.R.H.
the Duchess of...
Category: Awards
Storm tow HARTLAND POINT Coastguard informed lifeboat 70-001, Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service No. 35), at 0210 on February 6 that a trawler was sinking 281°T 26 miles from the Point. The lifeboat was under way by 0220 and 12 minutes...
Dummies from Aeroplanes: New Regulations.
IN the last issue of The Lifeboat two false alarms were recorded. In each case a parachute, with a dummy attached, had been dropped into the sea by an aeroplane, and the dummy was...
Category: Articles
DEC. 10TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK, CAISTER, NORFOLK, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 8.20 P.M. the coastguard reported that the steamer Willowpool, of Hartlepool,was sending out S.O.S. signals fourteen miles...