The Maud Smith Award for the most outstanding act of lifesaving during 1981 has been made to Coxswain Michael Scales of St Peter Port for the rescue on December 13 of 29 of the crew of the motor vessel Bonita, listing to 45 degrees in the...
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Any lifeboat launch can be risky, and a carriage launch from an exposed beach is particularly so. Overcoming a problem and completing a service is part of the tradition of the lifeboat service - well illustrated by an incident at Dungeness...
Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At about four o'clock in the morning of the 19th of December, 1949, the Bangor coast- guard telephoned that a vessel was in distress at Ballymacormack Point. At 4.25 the life-boat Civil Service No. 5 was launched in...
Cambridge, I May 1852.
SIR,—In the narrative of the lamentable wreck of the New Commercial at the Bris- sons, Cornwall, given in the April number of the Life-Boat Journal, it is stated by mis- take that I am the " only...
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FLARES WERE SEEN Dungeness, Kent. At 8.35 p.m. on 22nd October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen off Dengemarsh. There was a moderate westerly breeze with a rough sea. At 9.30 the life-boat Mabel...
Maryport, Cumberland. — After two days of very bad weather, conditions moderated somewhat on the 26th October and herring drifters put to sea. During the afternoon the weather got very bad again, and by 6.30 P.M.
a whole W....
At 11.30 a.m. on loth December, 1966, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that a sick woman on Inishmaan Island was in need of hospital treatment, and that he had to attend another patient on Inishere Island. In the absence of...
On the 2nd October the Life-boat Mary, on this station, was taken off by a volunteer crew to assist four fishing-cobles, which, while making for the harbour, were in much danger on account of the very heavy sea running round the pier-head....
Coxswain Richard Davies - Bronze Medal Cromer lifeboat, 13 October 1993 Richard Davies was in charge of Cromer's Tyne class lifeboat when she was involved in a long service in which she rescued a 30ft yacht and saved her crew of four.<... - View image in PDF
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Galway Bay, Galway.—At 6 P.M. on the 1st August, 1939, a message was received from Inishere that a Connemara boatman had reported that he had passed an upturned curragh half a mile north of Sandhead. A moderate S.W. breeze was blowing, with...