LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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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...

BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT LOWESTOFT SEPTEMBER 30TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. At 9.40 in the evening the naval authorities asked that the motor life-boat Michael Stephens should go out to the help of a vessel which was ashore about one and a half...

Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 12.5 on the .

afternoon of the 5th of June, 1956, the coastguard reported that a man on the St. Gowan lightvessel was ill and needed a doctor. A quarter of an hour later the Superintendent of...

Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumber- land. At ten o'clock on the night of 26th April, 1961, the harbour master in- formed the honorary secretary that the tanker Clydefield of Newcastle, on passage for Canada, had a man aboard with an injured...

ONE MAN RESCUED At 2.29 p.m. on igth October, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the pier lighthouse keeper had seen a small boat in difficulties near the harbour mouth. There was a moderate southby- east breeze and a...

Galway Bay. At 9.15 p.m. on iyth January, 1966, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that he needed the life-boat's assistance to convey a badly injured man to the mainland. The lifeboat Mabel Marion Thompson left at 10 with...

Word came on 7 April that a dog was in trouble off Dynamite quay, St Ives – and that a man was about to try to rescue it. The tide was rushing out of the estuary, making any such attempt by a swimmer extremely dangerous. When the D class...