LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
D.S.O.
Captain R. L. Harriet, R.N., the depu:y chief inspector of life-boats, who was called up to the Navy at the outbreak of war, has won the D.S.O., "for courage and resource in successful attacks on enemy submarines".
Category: Articles
Mystic Tie
ST. DAVID'S.—On the 11th November, at 5 P.M., it was reported that there was vessel stranded on Ramsay Island. The crew of the Life-boat Augusta immediately proceeded to the station, rockets and blue lights were fired, but no answer was...
Mr. Harold Cowie, S.S.C.
MR. HAROLD COWIE, s.s.c., a former member of the Committee of Management, died on the loth December, 1963.
Mr. Cowie served on the Committee of Management from 1949 until his resignation a few months before he died. He was...
Category: Obituaries
SSE support
We are now entering the third and final year of the RNLI’s partnership with Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE).
SSE is committed to supporting the communities in which it operates. When work began on the Greater Gabbard...
Category: Articles
Mr. George Colven, the Shore Attendant at St. Abbs, Pointing to the Rock (arrowed), the Highest of the Group, on Which the S.S Alfred Erlandsen Grounded In 1907
Mr. George Colven, the shore attendant at St. Abbs, pointing to the rock (arrowed), the highest of the group, on which the s.i. Alfred Erlandsen grounded in 1907-the sinking which ted to the establishment of a life-boat station at St.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Jersey Life-Boat Brings Eleven Survivors
from the S.S. Brockley Combe (see page 632). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Mumbles
THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE On the 20th January, 1941, The Mumbles life-boat rescued the crew of ten of the S.S. Cornish Rose, of Liverpool.
COXSWAIN WILLIAM J. GAMMON was awarded the bronze medal.
MOTOR...
Category: Medals
On the Coast of Jutland
Rescue of the crew of the s.s. Sprightly, of Newcastle, by the Danish Life-saving Service last June.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs