LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
First Knight (1)
The Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum has been awarded to Paul Gilson, helmsman of the Southend lifeboat, following the rescue of two people from the yacht First Knight in appalling weather conditions.
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A Tug
Lynmouth, Devon.—28th July, 1938.
A tug, with a barge in tow, was swamped in Porlock Bay, but the crew of seven swam ashore. Spectators made a collection of £10 for the Institution.— Rewards, £23 2s. Qd..
Derek Scott Bem
Derek Scott, BEM, coxswain of The Mumbles lifeboat, has been accorded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum for the rescue in his own dinghy of two men on December 22, 1981. Coxswain Scott already holds three medals for gallantry... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
BUCKIE.—At 9 A.M. on the 7th Aug. last a pilot-boat put off to bring the schooner Sen Aigen, coal laden from Sunderland, into the harbour during a strong gale from the N.W. and a rough sea. The pilot boarded the vessel and the boat proceeded...
Category: Services
Life-Boats' Other Duties
There are other ways, besides saving life from shipwreck, in which the Life- boats occasionally do service. They have taken doctors to sick men on Light- houses, and recently the Tenby Motor Life-boat took bread out to a storm- bound vessel....
Category: Services
Mr. Augustine Courtauld
Mr. Augustine Courtauld, the famous explorer, who had been a member of the Committee of Management since 1951, died on the 3rd of March, 1959, at the age of 54. He served on the finance, boat and construction and operations...
Category: Obituaries
SWEPT FROM A BREAKWATER
PORTHCAWL | 16 DECEMBER
A fisherman was knocked off his feet and dragged into the sea after a large wave swept over a breakwater. Within minutes the crew of Porthcawl’s inshore lifeboat were on their way, and found him drifting a...
Category: Services
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Category: Advertisement
The Barges Ailsa, Britisher, Cetus, Decima, Royalty, Raybell and Una
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—On the 23rd November, 1938, the motor life-boat helped to save the barges Ailsa and Britisher, with their crews numbering four; rescued the crews, four men in all, of the barges Cetus...
Coxswain Ron Cannon
Coxswain Ron Cannon Received ihe Silver Medal tor his "...enormous .'OUMi!o. determination and seamanship...' during a service to .1 disabled yacht in I uro: ~ si-iles .ind rough sets See Ihe Spring 2IMM hsue for ihe full... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs