LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
T. H. Burton
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 9.2 P.M.
on the 30th November a telephone message was received from the dockmaster, Salisbury Dock, Liverpool, that a motor barge, and three dumb barges in tow, were aground off the North...
Christina Dawn
Troon, Ayrshire.—On the 3rd of April, 1949, the life-boat Sir David Richmond of Glasgow rescued nine lives from the steamer Christina Dawn, of Gloucester.
Rewards, the thanks of the Institu- tion on vellum to the coxswain...
Boats (1)
On the 29th of July, 1956, life-boats from Dover and Dungeness, Kent, and Selsey, Sussex, put out to the help of a number of vessels in distress. A full account of these services for which, among other distinctions conferred, the silver...
Gipsy Mariner
The Lizard-Cadgwith, Cornwall - At 4.35 on 22nd July, 1967, information was given that distress flares had been seen two miles from the life-boat station. The life-boat The Duke of Cornwall (Civil Service No. 33} was launched at 4.58 in a...
None (1)
Walkers saved from submerged rockThe skilled actions, in difficult conditions, of helmsman Ronnie Davies, 43, of the Borth lifeboat, saved the lives of two walkers, trapped on a sea-battered rock beneath Borth Head.
At 1920...
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THE Twenty-seventh Annual Meeting of this Institution was held on the 18th June last, at the United Service Institution, Whitehall Yard, Admiral the EARL of SHREWSBURY and TALBOT, C.B., in the unavoidable absence of the DUKE of MARLBOBOUGH,...
Category: Meetings
Lily Dale
ST. DAVID'S. —While a gale from W.S.W. was blowing and a very high sea was running, on the 24th March, signals were fired by the South Bishop Lighthouse. At 5 P.M. the Life-boat Gem was launched, made for St. David's Head, and found...
Four Calls to Steamer
FOR a series of prolonged services extending over more than three days Coxswain Frank Bloom, of Walton and Frinton, has been awarded the Institution's bronze medal for gallantry. The other members of the crew have all been accorded the...
Category: Services
Formosa
At 8.30 A.M. on the 13th November a coast- watcher reported that a three-masted barque was off St. David's Head with her sails blown away and apparently totally disabled. A moderate N.N.W.
gale was blowing at the time...
A Small Boat
On the afternoon of the 13th January the coxswain of the motor life-boat Margaret Harker Smith was warned that a small boat, manned by three youths, had gone out of the harbour. A moderate N.W.
breeze was blowing, and a...