LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On the night of the 17th November the coastguard reported that a vessel in the roadstead, abreast the town, was burning flares. The Cockle and St.

Nicholas light-vessels also fired signals.

A strong N.E....

At 2.15 P.M on the 17th January the coastguard tele- E honed to the coxswain that the small shing boat Agnes and Betsy had not returned from the fishing grounds. A whole W.S.W. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea. The motor...

Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 11.55 on the morning of the 7th of August, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that a sail- ing dinghy had capsized about one and a half miles east of the coastguard station. At 12.3 the life-boat John...

Blyth, Northumberland.—At noon on the 10th of December, 1955, the •coastguard rang up to say that a man had reported that he had received a wireless message from the fishing hoat Golden Days. She reported that she was escorting the fishing...

Helvick Head, Co. Waterford. Shortly before midday on the 29th of January, 1961, the honorary secretary was in- formed that the French trawler Sainte Catherine of L'Orient, with a crew of nine, had gone ashore in Dungarvan Bay. At twelve...

THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving by a member of a life-boat crew in 1961 has been won by Coxswain John Stonehouse of Teesmouth for the rescue of the crew of three of the yacht Sybil Kathleen on the 1st...

St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 1.18 on the afternoon of the 22nd of April, 1958, a message was received from the St. Peter Port signal station that there were two seamen on board the Polish tanker Kasprowy suffering from food poisoning. At...

The Medallists (from front, I. to r.) Superintendent Coxswain Brian Bevan. (First row) Motor Mechanic Bill Sayers, Assistant Mechanic Ronald Sayers, Crew Member Michael Storey and Crew Member Peter Jordan, Humber. (Second row) Second... - View image in PDF