LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Some Special Gifts
In Gratitude.
ON 23rd September last, the steamer City of Osaka, belonging to the Hall Line, went on the rocks south of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, and was holed. A moderate gale was blowing, with a rough sea, when the...
Category: Donations
The Decoration of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
LIST OF PERSONS on whom the Committee of Management have conferred (prior to 31st December, 1907) the Decoration of the Institution for conspicuous and special services in the Life-boat cause other than actual personal...
Category: Awards
The Lowestoft Trawler Helping Hand
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 2.50 on the morning of the 10th November, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a flare had been seen about three miles west-by-north of Rhossilli Head. The position of the flare was later...
A Fishing Vessel
Man unconscious A STRONG south-westerly breeze, force 6, was blowing on the afternoon of Wednesday July 17, 1985, when New Quay's (Dyfed) 37ft Oakley class lifeboat, Birds Eye, launched after the coastguard had reported a fishing vessel...
A Rescue on the Cornish Cliffs
THE Institution has awarded its Thanks inscribed on Vellum and a monetary reward to Mr. J. Curtis, a fisherman of Polperro, Cornwall, for his gallantry in rescuing a shipwrecked man by climbing down the cliffs to him. in circumstances of...
Category: Awards
Sapphire, of Glasgow (1)
Newhaven, and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—Early in the morning of the 2nd December, 1937, the motor vessel Sapphire, of Glasgow, bound for Ghent, had trouble with her engine when some miles off the coast between Newhaven and Shoreham. The...
Nimrod II
USED PARACHUTE FLARE Plymouth, Devon. At 11.20 p.m. on 3ist July, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man in a cabin cruiser off Renney rocks was flashing a light and calling for help. It was half an hour after flood...
Defender
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 8.48 on the evening of the 26th of January, 1957, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that the motor vessel Defender, of Liverpool, had stranded on the revetment wall near the south end of the Formby channel. The...
The German Fishing Boat Angela
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 11.8 on the morning of the 10th of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the German fishing boat Angela had an injured man on board, who needed a doctor. The boat was due...
Mars (1)
DEC. 2 0TH. - BLYTH, AND TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND. At about 3 P.M. information was received through the coastguard that a steamer had been blown up about two miles south of Blyth. A light E.N.E. wind was blowing, with a slight sea.