A large number of awards have been made this year to coxswains, life- boatmen and honorary workers. The particulars of them are held over, owing to lack of space, until the next issue of The Life-boat..
Category: Awards
St. Helier, Jersey.—On the 19th of November, 1949, the life-boat rescued three from the ketch Hanna, of Poole.
Rewards, bronze medal and £24 12*.
(A full account of this service will be published in...
On the 3ist August, 1965, the life-boat Lucy Lavers, on temporary duty at the station, rescued the crew of two of the yacht Taka-Maru of Rhyl. A full account of this service will appear in the March number of THE LIFE-BOAT..
IN addition to those reported in the September number of the Life-boat on page 284 asjecipients of honours in the Birthday Honours List, the O.B.E. was bestowed on Mrs. M. Allport, chairman of the Bournemouth Ladies' Guild..
Category: Awards
IN the December, 1961, number of the LIFE-BOAT on page 177 it was stated that the Falmouth life-boat was launched on the 16th August. In fact the date of the launch was the 16th July..
Category: Articles
On the 7th April, the schooner Oregon, of Stonehaven, ran ashore on the South Gare Sand. The Middlesborough life-boat was towed again to the river's mouth, whence she proceeded to the sunken vessel and rescued her crew, 4 in...
On the night of the 10th January the Norwegian barque King Oscar ran ashore on the rocks off Newbiggin Point. The Newbiggin life- boat put off, and succeeded, with some dif- ficulty, in getting on board the crew, 14 in number, and one woman,...
IN August, 1825, seventeen months after the founding of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, a life-saving j society was formed at Boulogne, with the title " La Societe Humaine et des Naufrages de Boulogne." It was the first...
Category: Articles
Mrs Gladys Worth, founder member of Filton ladies' guild in 1963 and committee member from 1966 to 1984. She was chairman from 1971 until 1979.
The guild ceased to function in 1984..
Category: Obituaries
North Deal, Kent.—The Life-boat Charles Dibdin was launched at about 1 A.M. on the 3rd October, in response to signals from the Gull Lightship, during a strong westerly breeze. The boat proceeded to the southern part of the Goodwin Sands and...