LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Maud Smith Award
Coxswain George Leith, of the Lerwick, Shetland, lifeboat, who helped to rescue the crew of nine of the trawler Granton Osprey on December 13, 1972, is this year's recipient of the £5 'The Maud Smith Award for courage, in memory...
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A Tug
Lynmouth, Devon.—28th July, 1938.
A tug, with a barge in tow, was swamped in Porlock Bay, but the crew of seven swam ashore. Spectators made a collection of £10 for the Institution.— Rewards, £23 2s. Qd..
A Motor Vessel (1)
FEBRUARY 5TH. - PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE.
A motor vessel’s engine had broken down, but the vessel got into the shelter of a headland and did not need help.
- Rewards, £21 2s. 6d..
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JANUARY 17TH. - STROMNESS, ORKNEYS.
Distress signals had been reported, but neither the life-boat nor a naval aeroplane which took part in the search could find anything. - Rewards, £21 2s. 6d..
The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a Life-boat man's life- belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy, 22 Iba, to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...
Category: Articles
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Cliff-climbing lifeboatman saves boy Lifeboat crews are highly trained in many fields so they will be prepared when out on a shout. But there are a few services where RNLI training cannot help, where it is up to the individual to do...
Dear reader
My son was 4 at the time. We were living at Staithes, in North Yorkshire, and he started trying to swim across the harbour.
I shouted, but he didn’t come back – he just kept swimming. I jumped in fully clothed, reached him...
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Hannah Taylor
At 11 A.M on the 27th March the Cox- swain of the Life-boat Co-operator No. 1 received a report stating that a fishing coble had had her rudder broken about one mile south of the harbour. It was blowing a whole gale from the West at the time...
A Rowing Boat (1)
Wicklow. At 4.10 on the afternoon of the 20th of August, 1958, the cox- swain was told that a partly submerged boat was being driven southwards three miles north-east of Wicklow. At 4.30 the life-boat /. W. Archer was...
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