LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS.

SINCE the " Centenary Celebrations " Number of The Lifeboat appeared in November last a number of other cele- brations have been held.

Cumberland.

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On the 19th January, at 6 P.M., during heavy gale at "W.N.W., signals of distress were observed from a vessel at anchor in the bay. The Life-boat was thereupon launched, and on gaining the vessel it was ascertained that a boat which had...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.

—-1st July. A steamer stranded on East Holm Sands, but refloated without help.—Rewards, £16 Is..

Margate, Kent. At 3.24 on the afternoon of the 15th of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two boys in a canoe were being blown out to sea by a strong south- south-westerly wind off the Neyland Rocks. There was a...

Dover, Kent.—At 4.20 on the after- noon of the 17th of May, 1955, Lloyds signal station reported that a whaler, with five boys from Dover College oil board, which had a dinghy in tow with three boys on board, had been blown out of Dover...

John Drew, mechanic of Penlee lifeboat from 1938 to 1970 and assistant mechanic from 1933.

He was awarded a bronze medal in 1947..

Took line to survivor MR DOUGLAS GiBBiN of the Hartlepool Co. Durham, inshore lifeboat, as reported on page 16, was awarded the bronze medal of the RNLI for the part he played in saving the life of a 16-year-oldboy from...

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