LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

APRIL 10TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At about 6.50 P.M. the naval authorities reported that a tug was ashore on the North GoodwinSands. A strong N.N.E. breeze was blowing and the sea was rough. The motor life-boat Prudential was launched at 7.5 P.M...

MKDAUJS IS SHOVVKI) 'BRAVKRV AM) KXPKKTISK Sailor rescued as yacht is driven on to lee shore The coxswain and helmsman of Whitby's two lifeboats, the 44ft Waveney White Rose of Yorkshire and the D class inflatable Gwynaeth, have both...

THE Institution has awarded its Bronze Medal to Mr. Hugh MacKay, Senr., of Hilton, on the north-east coast of Rossshire on the Moray Firth, and its Thanks inscribed on Vellum to four other men for their gallantry in attempting to save a...

THE President of the German Republic has awarded to the Coxswain and Crew of the Margate Motor Life-boat certifi- cates in recognition of their services to the German motor-ship Hermine, of Wilhelmshaven, in the early morning of 29th...

St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At 9.55 on the night of the 26th of May, 1956, the coastguard reported that a boy had fallen over a cliff near St. David's Head. The life-boat Civil Service No.

6 was launched at 10.15 in...

LIFE-BOAT REFLOATS GROUNDED COBLE Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 8.40 a.m. on Friday the 30th August, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the fishing coble Dorothy was ashore at Danes Dyke and that another coble was going to...

Lerwick, Shetland*. At 1.45 on the after- noon of 27th January, 1961, the Medical Officer of Health for Shetland told the honorary secretary that a woman had been blown over by the wind on Fair Isle and had been badly injured, and that it...

OVER a year after she was first introduced experimentally into the life-boat service, the 48-foot 6-inch Oakley prototype life-boat, The* Earl and Countess Howe, was named and dedicated at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, on 26th...