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Awards to Coxswains Crews and Shore Helpers

Date: Winter 1988

Volume: 50

Issue: 503

To Coxswains, Crews and Shore Helpers The following coxswains, members of lifeboat crews and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and, in addition, those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations...

Category: Awards

Lifeboat Services (1)

Date: Summer 1988

Volume: 51

Issue: 505

Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Arun: March 22, April 4 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: May 7 (twice) and 15 (twice) Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: April 1, May 6 and 19 (twice) Aberystwyth, Dyfed C class: May 28 Aldeburgh, Suffolk 37ft 6in...

Category: Services

Lifeboat Services (1)

Date: Spring 1992

Volume: 52

Issue: 520

Aberdeen, Grampian 54ft Arun ON 1050: November 29 and December 23 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: November 2 Aldeburgh, Suffolk 37ft Sin Rather ON 1068: November 23, December 18 and January 12 Alderney, Channel Islands Relief 44ft Waveney ON...

Category: Services

Rescue In a Hurricane. A Silver-Medal Service at Tenby

Date: April 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 333

ABOUT 4.30 in the morning of 15th January, 1938, the coastguard at Tenby, Pembrokeshire, reported that a small steamer was in distress. She was the Fermanagh, of Belfast, bound light for Llanelly. A gale was blowing from the south-west, with...

Category: Services

To Five Vessels In One Day. Bronze Medal to the Southend-On-Sea Coxswain

Date: December 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 336

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 139 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 25 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November 30th, 1938 - - - - 65,989 To Five Vessels in One...

Category: Services

Across the Revetment of the Mersey

Date: Autumn 1950

Volume: 33

Issue: 356

THERE was a full southerly gale blowing off-New Brighton last September 15th, with frequent squalls of rain, and the sea was very rough. Soon after half- past one in the afternoon the coastguard noticed a three-masted schooner at anchor in...

Category: Services

Spanish Steamer Wrecked at Coverack

Date: April 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 360

ON the night of the 3rd of November, 1951, a south-west gale was blowing on the south coast of Cornwall, with heavy rain. The night was very dark. A small Spanish steamer the Mina Cantiquin, of Gijon, with a crew of seventeen, was steaming...

Category: Services

Seven Men Rescued from Sinking Lightvessel

Date: December 1953

Volume: 33

Issue: 366

AT 9.25 on the night of the 21st of September, 1953, the Tenby coast- guard learnt that the pumps in the St.

Gowan lightvessel had stopped work- ing and that she was in danger of sinking. There were seven men on board the...

Category: Services

The Long Tow

Date: March 1968

Volume: 41

Issue: 423

WHEN THE new Gorleston 44-foot steel life-boat Khami on 5th September, 1967» went to the aid of the m.v. Aureity, whose steering gear had broken down, no one knew then that the life-boat would end up by towing the auxiliary cutter...

Category: Services

The S.S. Primrose

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT BALLYCOTTON JANUARY 30TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. In the early morning of the 27th of January, 1941, many mines came ashore in Ballycotton Bay, on the south coast of Ireland, and four of them exploded, doing...