LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE Norwegian Government has awarded silver medals and diplomas to Mr. E. Selby Davidson, honorary secretary of the Tynemouth station, Coxswain George Lisle, W. Johnson, the motor mechanic, and Bartholomew Taylor, a member of the crew, for...

/ /•Yfi + zifi'f-o Notes of the Quarter, by Patrick Howarth Ill Lifeboat Services.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 113 Postscript. . .: extracts from an article by Captain Basil Hall, an inspector XLV of lifeboats at the turn of the century 119...

Eastbourne’s Mersey class lifeboat Royal Thames was launched on 22 August to help the crew of a yacht that had suffered mechanical failure.

Lifeboat crew members are pictured onboard the yacht setting up a tow. The yacht’s...

JANUARY MEETING ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At about 5 in the afternoon of the 21st June, 1940, the coastguard reported a ship’s boat drifting some five miles north of Ilfracombe. A light N.N.W. wind was blowing, with a slight sea.

No. 7 Life-boat Area DIFFICULT RESCUE FROM ROCK THE Pwllheli life-boat and the Abersoch ILB, stationed on the Caernarvonshire coast, answered a call on 25th June, 1972, when two men in a motor boat were reported...

To THOMAS PENGILLY, on his retirement, after serving 27 years as Coxswain and previously 10 years as Second Coxswain of the Clovelly Life-boat, a Certificate of Ser- vice and a Pension.

To JOHN W. PLUMMER, on his...

Miss MARGARET POWER, honorary sec- retary of the Cobham branch, who runs a stamp club for the Institution, will be very glad to receive jubilee stamps issued by the Dominions and Colonies, especially the higher-priced ones, whether used or...

SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT ANGLE DECEMBER 18TH. - ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE.

A gale was blowing from the south-west and a very rough sea was running. In the early evening a small Dutch ship, the motor vessel Thor, of Rotterdam,...