LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Cromer, Norfolk.—At 11.22 -on the night of the 10th of September, 1948, the coastguard reported that the Humber Radio Station had inter- cepted a message from the French motor trawler Georges Langanay, of Fe'camp. She was on the...

Sixty four gold, silver and bronze medals were awarded for gallantry.

As many medals have been won in this one year of war as in the last six years of peace..

FEBRUARY 4TH - 6TH. - ST. DAVID’S AND FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE, AND NEW QUAY, AND ABERYSTWYTH, CARDIGANSHIRE.

H.M. submarine Universal was on her way to the breaker’s yard. Late on the night of the 3rd of February her...

On the 22nd of March, 1953, the Stromness and Thurso life-boats both went to the help of the trawler Leicester City, of Grimsby, when she went aground three and a half miles south- west of Stromness. Fourteen men were picked up alive, but...

ON the 15th of May, 1951, the Flam- borough life-boat went out to save a.

boy, fallen over a cliff.

For a full account of this service, and list of rewards, see page 205..

KIRKWALL, ORKNEYS. On the afternoon of the 2nd of August, 1946, a Polish soldier was off Crow Nest Point, in Kirkwall Bay, on a raft and being blown out to sea. A westerly breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. At the request of the...

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