LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Boats (5)
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At about 1 P.M. on the 23rd December, 1938, avery heavy ground swell got up in Wick Bay and seas were frequently breaking across the harbour entrance.
The fishing fleet was at sea, and as the entrance...
B.E.M. for Two Coxswains
THE British Empire Medal has been awarded to Coxswain Hugh Nelson, of Donaghadee, and ex-Coxswain William McConnell, of Portpatrick, in recogni- tion of the services they rendered in rescuing 33 survivors from the Princess Victoria on the...
Category: Awards
Coxswain Wickham of Rosslare Harbour
JAMES WICKHAM, a former Rosslare Harbour coxswain, died on the 6th of December, 1953, at the age of 78.
Coxswain Wickham was a son of the late Coxswain Thomas Wickham of the Wexford life-boat. He himself succeeded his...
Category: Obituaries
Mrs R H Robinson
In connection with the report on page 277 of the April Journal recording Mrs. R. H.
Robinson's retirement as the District Organising Secretary for the R.N.L.I, in the south east, it has been pointed out that she served,...
Category: Articles
Temar
COLLECTIVE AWARD TO COXSWAIN AND CREW On the 8th of December, 1962, the Southend-on-Sea life-boat rescued one man and landed two men, two women and two children from the Dutch motor vessel Temar. For this service the thanks of the...
Disposition of Life-Boats
The Michael Stephens (ex-Exmouth) has been placed in the reserve fleet along with the Crawford and Constance Conybeare (ex-Falmouth). The Gertrude (ex-Holy Island) has gone to Exmouth, and the Lilla Marras, Douglas and Will (ex-Cromarty) is...
Category: Articles
Cullercoats News
Although the Cullercoats, Northumberland, life-boat station has been closed, support for the life-boat service is as strong as ever it was. All local fund-raising events are to go on as usual, those for the rest of the year being a coffee...
Category: Articles
Scarab
Mudeford, Hampshire. At 2.13 p.m.
on I2th April, 1964, inshore rescue boat no. 7 was launched to aid the yacht Scarab, which, with a crew of two on board, had run aground on the bar. There was a moderate south-westerly...
An Air bed
Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire. At 3.3 p.m. on 20th August, 1965, a member of the public told the honorary secretary that a boy had fallen off a drifting air bed, 600 yards north of the station. At 3.5 the IRB launched in a gentle westerly breeze...
None (7)
At 1.30 p.m. on loth October, 1966, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that he needed to go to Inishmaan and the Inishere islands to attend patients. At 2.30, when the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her moorings, it was...