LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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LIFE-BOAT RECOVERS DEAD BODY Criccieth, Caernarvonshire. At 3.20 p.m. on Monday the 5th of August, 1963, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that he had received an urgent message from the Commandant of the Boys Brigade camp, who was...

20th De- cember. Reports of guns had been heard, but no trace of any vessel in distress could be found.—Permanent crew. Rewards, 9*..

LYDD, DUNGENESS. — The Life-boat David Hulett was launched on the 11th March, in reply to signals of distress, and proceeded to the ship Livingstone, of Yarmouth, N.S., which had stranded near No. 2 Battery, East Bay, Dungeness, during a...

Crew Member John Dew of Torbay was one of two men who rescued two elderly people when fire broke out in a block of flats in Brixham last October.

He had seen the flames while driving home, went to investigate and helped...

SUNDERLAND, NORTH DOCK.—While a strong N.N.E. gale was blowing, accompanied by a very rough sea and torrents of sleet and rain, on the 26th October, the ketch Emma Walker, of Sunderland, laden with coal for Wick, attempted to enter the...

Stromness, Orkney.—25th July. A boat with a man on board was reported to be in distress in Hoy Sound, but nothing could be found, nor was any boat missing.—Rewards, £4 13s. 6d..

Wells, Norfolk.—13th February, 1938.

A signal was reported, but no trace of any vessel in need of help could be found.—Rewards, £25 18s. 9d..