LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

FOR a service, in which he had to take his life-boat through a narrow, unchartered channel, infested with rocks, to a trawler whose bow was hard aground, Coxswain John Nicolson of Aith, Shetlands, has been awarded the R.N.L.I.'s silver...

BY the death on 13th August, at the age of 79, of the Right Hon. the Earl Waldegrave, P.O., a Vice-President of the Institution and the Chairman of its Committee of Management for twelve years, the Life-boat Service lost a generous friend...

At 10.20 A.M. on the llth May it was reported that a steamer was ashore on the rocks near Northcott Mouth. The sea was smooth, but the fog was very dense at the time.

The Life-boat Elizabeth Moore Garden was launched, and...

— A whole N.N.E. gale swept the Irish Channel on llth January, accompanied by very heavy seas. About half-past eight o'clock the steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland was called out in re- sponse to signals of distress, and the...

THE two silver and six bronze medals, with diplomas, which were awarded to Coxswain William Mogridge, of Torbay, and his crew by the French Government for the rescue of the skipper of the trawler Satanicle, on 30th December, 1935, were...

FOR the rescue of four men from the m.f.v. Jaroma, a letter of thanks, signed by the Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.s.o., has been addressed to Coxswain Alfred Manning and the crew of the Margate, Kent...

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DECEMBER 16TH and l7TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 12.12 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that a steamer, off Goring, was going round in circles and sounding her whistle. A strong south-west wind was blowing, with a rough sea....