LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Awards to Coxswains and Crews
THE following coxswains and members of life-boat crews were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and in addition those entitled to them, by the Institution's regulations, were awarded an annuity or a retirement allowance...
Category: Awards
Mary Jane
About 8.15 P.M.
on the 8th September, the schooner Mary Jane, of Lancaster, made signals of distress. For two days she had been lying at anchor near Puffin Island in an unsuitable berth, and on the 8th the S.W. wind...
Mayflower
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At 9.52 on the night of the 7th of September, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that the motor fishing boat Mayflower, which had gone with a crew of five, to SuUskcr Rock for Solan-geese, was overdue. A...
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COASTGUARDSMAN LOWERED TO MAN AFTER CLIFF FALL Sennen Cove, Cornwall. At 7.17 on the evening of the 9th May, 1962, the coastguard told the coxswain that a man was thought to be trapped on the cliffs at Lands End, but that he could not be...
Alice
Stromness, Orkney.—On the afternoon of the 31st of January, 1957, a severe gale sprang up and anxiety was felt for the safety of the local fishing boat Alice, which had not returned from the lobster fishing grounds off Hoy Head.
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Silver Strand
Islay, Hebrides.—At 9.15 on the morn- ing of the 5th of May, 1957, the Kilchoman coastguard telephoned that a yacht was ashore on the Black Rock in the Sound of Islay and needed help.
The life-boat Edward Z. Dresden, on...
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Arklow, Co. Wicklow. At 10.30 on the morning of the 3rd of April, 1958, the motor mechanic was told that the body of a man had been seen in the sea at Arklow Rock. The Civic Guards were informed and they replied that the body could not be...
She's A Lady
Cromer and Sheringham, Norfolk- At 6 p.m. on 30th June, 1968, the honorary secretary of the Cromer lifeboat station was told that a small boat was in difficulties off Sheringham beach. The life-boat Ruby and Arthur Reed was launched at 6.12....
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CLIFF RESCUE Life-boats are often called to rescue people trapped in difficult situations, and on 28th February, 1971, an anticipatory message was received at 3.9 p.m. from the Coastguard reporting that a cliff climber was in difficulties at...
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Rescue of two cut off by tide Tenby's D class lifeboat was called out to rescue two young men who were cut off by the tide at Waterwynch Point on 23 August.
The sea was rough but the crew members displayed skill,...