LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Typhoon Aeroplane (1)
APRIL 28TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE.
A Typhoon aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but only wreckage and oil were found. - Rewards, £6 12s. 6d..
A Motor Schooner
OCTOBER 6TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. A motor schooner had run ashore, but refloated. - Rewards, £2 12s.
Partly permanent paid crew..
A Motor Boat (3)
AUG. 4TH. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. A motor boat was seen flying a distress signal, but she was towed in by another boat.-Rewards, £13 12s. 6d.
New Life-Boat for Fraserburgh
A VERY interesting ceremony took place at Fraserburgh on the 4th August, when the new Motor Life-boat, the Lady Rothes, presented to the Institution by Mr. T. Dyer Edwardes, was named and launched in the presence of some thousands of...
Category: Inaugurations
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
GROOMSPORT, IRELAND.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has forwarded a new 32-feet 10-oared life-boat to this station, in place of a smaller one which was found i unsuitable for the locality. A transporting- I carriage has also been sent...
Category: Articles
Coxswain Henry G. Blogg
BY winning a third-service clasp to his silver medal for the rescue of the crew of the Mount Ida, Coxswain Henry G. Blogg, of Cromer, takes the first place in the Institution's records for gallantry. He has now won its gold medal twice...
Category: Medals
The Sea Cadet Boats Rosie and Black Cap
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 8.40 on the evening of the 23rd of July, 1955, the Formby coastguard reported that the Sea Cadet pinnace Rosie was ashore on Devil's Bank in the river Mersey off Garston. At 8.50 the life- boat Norman 13....
The S.S. Vassilis
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 5.40 on the afternoon of the 25th of August, 1955, the Coast Life-saving Service at Came rang- up to say that a steamer had gone aground at Collough Rock near Carnesore Point and had sig- nalled for help....
Instructions for the Management of Open Boats In Heavy Surfs and Broken Water
IN the 18th Number of this Journal we inserted a Paper on the above subject, compiled in great part from information collected from the boatmen on the coasts of the United Kingdom.
The Committee of the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT...
Category: Articles
Louis Sheid and Tajandoen
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT SALCOMBE DEC. 7TH. - SALCOMBE, AND PLYMOUTH, DEVON. Early in the morning the Belgian steamer Louis Sheid, of over 6,000 tons, was in the English Channel on her way to Antwerp. She had a crew of forty-six men. She saw...