LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

GOLD MEDAL SERVICE AT HARTLEPOOL JANUARY 26TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM, AND TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE. At 6.55 in the morning word came from the coastguard that he had seen rockets from a vessel off Seaton Carew. The life-boat was called out at once...

On the afternoon of the 20th of June.

1959, the life-boat Richard Vernon and Mary Garforth of Leeds was on a routine exercise near Gettiswick Bay, Angle Point, when several sailing dingh- ies taking part in the Milford...

QUEENSTOWN.—Telegrams having been received from Eoche's Point at about 10.30 A.M., on the 15th October, stating that the barque Howard A. Turner, timber laden, was anchored close to the breakers, and that the services of the Life-boat...

ONE SUNDAY in July I had the great pleasure of meeting lifeboatmen from Blyth, the station on the north east coast of England for which the Rother lifeboat being funded by the Shoreline appeal is destined. Motor Mechanic Colin Cutherbertson,...

Coxswain Angus Mackintosh of Thurso, Caithness-shire, who is serving in the Navy as a petty officer, has been awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for his work in the Norwegian campaign.

Two members of the life-boat crew...

With deep regret we record the following deaths: OCTOBER 1993 Mrs E. Hill, honorary secretary of Gourock ladies' guild from 1954 to 1974. She was awarded a Silver badge in 1964 and a Gold badge in 1975.

Mrs Sheena Luke,...

THE progress in construction and the results in the past year of the work of the Motor-Boats now on the coast are very satisfactory, and we now give a revised Table of the Motor-Boats with the motors installed in them. A comparison •of this...

Torbay, Devon.—At 10.10 on the night of the 10th of December, 1957, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was flashing S.O.S. inside Torquay harbour. The lifeboat George Shee put out at 10.35 in a heavy swell. A fresh...