LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Admiral Sir John A. S. Eccles, K.C.B., K.C.V.O., C.B.E.
Admiral Sir John A. S. Eccles, K.C.B., K.C.V.O., C.B.E., died on ist March, 1966, at the age of 67. Sir John, who had a distinguished career in the Royal Navy, later applied his vast experience in industry. During the time he was Admiral...
Category: Obituaries
Coxswain Patrick Flaherty
Coxswain Patrick Flaherty of Galway Bay, a holder of the bronze medal for gallantry, died on the 25th of October, 1957. He received his medal for an outstanding service in August 1938, when the crew of twelve of the steam trawler Nogi, which...
Category: Obituaries
Coxswain Hugh Nelson
HUGH NELSON, coxswain of the Dona- ghadee life-boat, died on the 21st of November, 1954, at the age of 63. He had served as coxswain of the Dona- ghadee life-boat since July, 1949, having previously been second cox- swain for twenty...
Category: Obituaries
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KEEPER UNCONSCIOUS St. Marys, Scilly Isles. At 8.45 p.m.
on 9th March, 1965, the honorary secretary was informed by Lands End radio that a keeper on Round Island Lighthouse had been found unconscious. The honorary secretary...
Medals for Devon Coxswains
Coxswain Edwin Distin, of Salcombe, who won the silver medal in the third month of the war, has now been awarded the bronze medal for rescuing the crew of an Admiralty salvage craft, in very heavy seas. His motor mechanic was ill, and his...
Category: Articles
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Category: Advertisement
Captain W.J. Law,
JUNE 1995 Captain W.J. Law, president of Stanmore branch. He joined the branch in 1978 and for 16 years was the flag week organiser, receiving a Silver badge in 1989. Captain Law was appointed president of the branch in 1994..
Category: Obituaries
Sea Time running out
The yacht Sea Time was running out of fuel, 18 miles from shore. She had been battling gale-force conditions for 16 hours on 9 September 2008 when Llandudno’s Mersey class lifeboat Andy Pearce was launched. A lifeboat crew member went...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Milgate
At 7 o'clock on the morning of the 2nd November, a message was received from the Coast- guard, stating that a vessel was in dis- tress about four miles to the east of Newhaven. The signal was fired, and within a quarter of an hour the...
The S.S. Teeswood
Margate, Kent.—At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 29th of July, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that a small boat had been reported in diffi- culties one mile off Tankerton. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was...