LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Medal for Rescue from Fishing Vessel
Coxswain Gordon Elliott of Padstow has been awarded the Institution's silver medal for gallantry for the rescue of two men from the fishing vessel Deo Gratias on 23rd November, 1965. The thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have...
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New birth for Oban lifeboat!Oban's new Trent had been on service for less than three weeks when her services were first officially recognised - by the naming of a baby!baby! The Trent, Mora Edith Macdonald, received her 'award'...
A Coxswain's Memories of His First Service
Coxswain Edward WicJcham, of Wexford, Co, Wexford, who was Second Coxswain from 1886 to 1899, and Coxswain from 1899 to 1925, and who twice won the Silver Medal of the Institution for gallantry, has written the following account of his first...
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Eildon
Ramsgate, Kent. At 6.14 on the even- ing of the 9th September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a coaster was reported to be aground near the North Goodwin buoy. There was a moderate south- westerly wind, and the sea...
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the west, the sea was slight and visibility was excellent but the tide, which had been flooding for 3'/2 hours, was still rising.
The water had already risen above the girls' chests and was lapping around their...
Category: Services
Trawler Inquiry Findings
The inquiry into the loss of the trawler Cctsita and the subsequent drownin g of her crew of two opened at Brixham, Devon, on 22nd January, 1968.
The following witnesses gave evidence on behalf of the R.N.L.I.: Mr. F. W....
Category: Articles
New Rnli Tractor for Carriage Lifeboats
A NEW PROTOTYPE launching tractor was placed on extended evaluation trials at Ffoylake lifeboat station on Tuesday April 12, 1983. This new tractor has been developed jointly by the Institution and M. A. Bigland (Preparations) Limited of...
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Sinbad
UNCONSCIOUS MEN SAVED RED FLARES seen .at 10.23 p.m. on 3rd September, 1971, six miles north of the Skerries caused the Holyhead, Anglesey, life-boat St Cybi (Civil Service No. 9) to be launched.
The life-boat, with...
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1855
Moved by Captain J. SHEPHERD, H. C. S., Deputy Master of the Trinity House, and seconded by SAMUEL GREGSON, Esq., M.P., 1—That the Report now read be adopted and circulated.
Moved by Joror MASTERMAX, Esq., M.P., and...
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the Finnish Coaster Inio
Coaster on fire A TELEPHONE CALL from Belfast Pilot Station to HM Coastguard at 1300 on Tuesday April 10 reported a fire aboard the Finnish coaster Inio of Helsinki about a mile and a half north east of Mew Island. A firefighting tug,...