LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Certificates of Service and Pensions.

The COXSWAIN'S CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE and a PENSION, have been awarded to: JAMES REDMOND, 10J years coxswain, 15 years bowman, and 11 years a member of the crew of the Dun Laoghaire...

Lowestoft, Suffolk.—On Whit Monday, the 29th May, 1939, the life-boat coxswain was told by the coastguard at about 8 P.M. that a motor vessel was in difficulties about a mile to the S.S.E.

The weather was fine, but the sea...

Formidable - dinner at Alderney's sailing club produced by TVsuperchef Gary Rhodes and Alderney lifeboat crew for their French coastguard friends from CROSSMA (above) is a culinary success. - View image in PDF

HARWICH.—The steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland, with the reserve Lifeboat in tow, went out on the morning of the 6th January, in a fresh gale from the N.E., snow squalls and a very heavy sea, signals having been fired by the Cork...

MARCH 3RD. - BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND, AND EYEMOUTH, AND ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE. About 3.15 in the afternoon men were seen to bale out from an aeroplane which crashed in the sea some two miles off Burnmouth. A light westerly wind...

A message was received from the Coast- guard at 6 P.M. on 18th May that a schooner anchored in St. Bride's Bay about two miles off shore, was flying a distress signal. The crew of the Life-boat General Farrell were assembled but a...

St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly— On the evening of the 15th August the secretary of the station was out fishing near Crehewethan, with his son and a friend, in the motor boat Penguin. The engine broke'down, and owing to the strong ebb...

Working Together from page 93 You have only got to touch it with a rope, or something like that, and there is no problem.

Kennett: We just give them a flick as soon as they come down. That is good...