LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Bronze Medallists:
Bronze medallists: (I to r) Dannie McKay of Wick; he saved three men and their coble among rocks in a gale (full report: THE LIFEBOAT, winter '84185); David Clemence of llfracombe who pulled a yacht and her terrified occupant from rocks... - View image in PDF
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The S.S. Dublin Bay
FEBRUARY 27TH. - WICKLOW. At 9.30 in the morning the Wicklow civic guard telephoned to the life-boat mechanic that a ship was ashore in Brittas Bay, about six miles south of Wicklow Head. An eastnorth- east gale was blowing, with very heavy...
Cachalot and Wombat and Mako
Two calls ON THE MORNING of Friday August 13, 1982, a message came at 1148 from Thames Coastguard informing Aideburgh lifeboat station of a fishing vessel, Cachalot, which had broken down; she was anchored between Orfordness and Weir Point...
Pallas and Nelly
BROADSTAIRS.—At 6 A.M. on the 18th Sept., when it was blowing hard from the N.E., in reply to signals of distress exhibited from the North Sand Head lightship, the Life-boat Samuel Morrison Collins was launched, and standing off under sail,...
Hyperion, of Harwich
Dungeness, Kent.—At 1.50 P.M. on the 21st May a local boatman reported a small motor yacht in difficulties. A moderate W.S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The yacht was the Hyperion, of Harwich. She had been taken in tow by a Dutch...
Gweneth
TOW FOR YACHT EN FOG The Lizard-Cadgwith, Cornwall. At 2.36 on the morning of the 15th July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was stationary about one mile east of the life-boat station. She had no engine and...
P.M.
TOW FOR YACHT IN GALE St. Helier, Jersey. At 5.7 on the afternoon of the 6th August, 1962, the harbour radio station informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was believed to have capsized about two miles south of Demie de Pas lighthouse,...
Rousalka
Filey, Yorkshire.—At 10.15 on the night of the 25th of July, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a man had reported that a yacht was drifting three miles east-north-east of Filey Brigg Buoy. At 10.55 the life-boat The Isa & Penryn...
Straight Flush
Margate, Kent. At 11.25 on the morning of the 15th of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was ashore near the South Margate buoy and needed help. At 11.38 the life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No....
Osterling
YACHT REFLOATED IN NEAR GALE Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 1.7 on the afternoon of the 9th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was aground on the east side of the Wyre Channel abreast of no. 8 buoy, and...