LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

NOVEMBER 27TH. - ARKLOW, CO. WICKLOW.

A returning fishing boat reported that another fishing boat, the St. Gerrard, had broken down. A south-south-west wind was blowing, with a very rough sea, and the weather was getting...

Injured yachtsman saved from certain deathD A mayday call from an injured sailor who had lost control of a yacht was relayed to Falmouth Coastguard on 29 October 2003.

The Royal Navy (RN) search and rescue helicopter from...

Aberdeen, and Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.

—At 2.25 on the morning of the 17th of September, 1950, the Gregness coastguard telephoned the Aberdeen life-boat authorities. The motor fish- ing vessel Saga, of Aberdeen, with a...

Coxswain Robert Cross, of the Humber, has won the Institution's gold medal for the second time since the war began. He has won it for rescuing the crew of a trawler which had stranded on a sandbank in a gale. There were heavy snow...

Coxswain Arthur Liddon of Dover joined the lifeboat crew in 1950. He became assistant mechanic in July 1952, second coxswain in April 1966 and coxswain/mechanic in 1967.

He was awarded the silver medal for gallantry for a... - View image in PDF

Certificates of Service and Pensions.

The COXSWAIN'S CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE and a PENSION, have been awarded to: JAMES REDMOND, 10J years coxswain, 15 years bowman, and 11 years a member of the crew of the Dun Laoghaire...

(S«e Diagrams «« next page.) The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat. Every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house...

Mr Michael O'Donaghue (Baltimore) who served as coxswain for over 18 years and as bowman for nearly 12 years.