LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of Foreign Life-Boats to British Vessels In 1932
IT is hoped in future to publish each year in the summer number of The Life-boat, the record of the services of foreign life-boats to British vessels during the previous year. The record for 1932 is as follows : The United State* of...
Category: Services
The Best Essay
By OSMOND PATTISON HANDFORD ROBB (14), Royal High School, Edinburgh.
Imagine that You have been Shipwrecked, and Rescued by a Life-boat. Describe Your Experiences.
THE sea was turbulent; a thick fog...
Category: Articles
Realf (3)
New Brighton, Cheshire; Beaumaris, and Moelfre, Anglesey ; Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire ; and Llandudno, Caernarvonshire.
—25th February. Early in the morning the tanker Realf, of London, which was bound for Liverpool, in...
The S.S. River Humber
Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire, and Barmouth, Merionethshire.—The Abersoch coastguards reported to the Pwllheli lifeboat station at 12.10 in the morning of the 4th October, 1938, that a vessel was dragging her anchors in St. Tudwalls Roads. A...
Casualty Might Have Capsized
OUTSTANDING services in which courage and skilled seamanship were displayed by St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly, life-boat personnel in the rescue of ten crew from a Swedish motor vessel under fierce weather conditions, have been recognised...
Category: Services
Rescue During Convalescence
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Bawtree of Porthleven have received a letter of thanks signed by the Chairman of the Committee of Management, Captain the Hon. V. M. Wyndham- Quin, R.N., for rescuing two boys who had been cut off by the tide at Gillan...
Category: Services
Long Service Awards
THE LONG SERVICE BADGE, introduced from January 1 this year for crew members and shore helpers who have given active service for 20 years more, has been awarded to: Aldeburgh Coxswain W. V. Burrell. BEM Second Coxswain S. Strowger Motor...
Category: Awards
Vamoss II
Yacht saved BRIXHAM COASTGUARD contacted Exmouth lifeboat station on the morning of Friday June 21, 1985 with the news that a yacht was in difficulties one mile off shore to the east of Sidmouth. Six minutes later, at 1046, the station's...
Sea Fox (2)
Search success AT 1820 ON FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1987, Tyne Tees Coastguards were alerted by the mother of one of two men aboard the Hartlepool-based fishing boat Sea Fox that the vessel was six hours overdue at the east coast...
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Girls trapped A POLICE message on May 1 told the Newquay, Cornwall, ILB that four people were stranded on rocks on the north side of Zacrys Island.
The maroons were fired at 4.26 p.m.
Wind was north...