LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Brave Boys. Award of Vellums at Worthing
THE Institution's Thanks inscribed on Vellum have been presented to two boys of Worthing, Eric Mundell and Stanley A. Darkin, both aged fifteen, for rescuing two lives from shipwreck at great risk to themselves. On the morning of 2nd...
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Ethel Edith
During a fresh S. gale on 13th January, with a very rough sea, the Coastguard reported, at 7.49 A.M., that a ketch, which was found to be the Ethel Edith, of Faversham, carrying a crew of four and bound with maize from London to Great...
Three Boats
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 1.10 in the afternoon of the llth of May, 1952, a message was received from Leysdown that three women and a man in a small boat were in difficulties about two miles off shore, and at 1.30 the life-boat Greater...
Gracie
North Sunderiand, Northumberland.— At 9.32 on the morning of the 22nd of October, 1955, the Seahouscs coast- guard rang up to say that a message had been received from the Longstone lightvessel that a fishing boat, with one man on board,...
Rover, of Annan
On the 10th October, the Angela and Hannah life-boat went out, during a fresh breeze from the S.W., and saved a man, who was found on a raft, formed of two ballast boards and a gaff. He had belonged to the smack Rover,' of Annan, which...
Talacre
PEEL, ISLE OF MAN.—Signals of distress having been shown by the schooner Talacre, of Beaumaris, bound from Conway forLarne with a cargo of slates, the Lifeboat John Monk put off at 8.15 A.M., in a strong W. breeze and a heavy sea, on the...
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19th October.
A vessel had been reported ashore, but could not be found. One of the life- boatmen was washed overboard, but rescued.—Rewards, Thanks of the In- stitution inscribed on vellum, letters of thanks, and £l...
A Washington Aircraft (2)
On the 26th of January, 1954, six life-boats, those from Barrow, Fleet- wood, Blackpool and Lytham-St.
Annes, Lancashire, and Douglas and Port St. Mary, Isle of Man, searched unsuccessfully for the crew of a Washington...
Temar
COLLECTIVE AWARD TO COXSWAIN AND CREW On the 8th of December, 1962, the Southend-on-Sea life-boat rescued one man and landed two men, two women and two children from the Dutch motor vessel Temar. For this service the thanks of the...
Walmer Lifeboat Station Shore Helper Ken Hovells of Deal
Walmer lifeboat station shore helper Ken Hovells, of Deal, is pictured with his model of Solent class lifeboat Jack Shayler and the Lees, formerly stationed at Bembridge, Isle of Wight and since reallocated to Douglas, Isle of Man. The scale... - View image in PDF
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