LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

IT is very gratifying to be able to record that H.M. the King of Norway awarded a piece of silver plate to Robert Smith, the Coxswain of the Tynemouth Motor Life-boat Henry Vernon, and conferred Silver Medals and diplomas on the other...

CLACTON-ON-SEA.—While a moderate gale was blowing from N.E., accompanied by a heavy sea, on the 24th January, a schooner was observed stranded on the Middle Spit Sands. The Life-boat Albert Edward was launched at 5.15 P.M. and sailed to the...

CLACTON.— Signals from the Swin Middle Light-vessel were observed on the morning of the 17th February, during a N.E. wind and a rough sea. The Albert Edward Life-boat was launched at 3.30; proceeded to the Light-vessel, and found the crew,...

Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—During the afternoon of the 9th September, 1938, a small boat carrying two men and a seven-year-old girl capsized about three-quarters of a mile off Shoreham beach. A moderate northerly breeze was blowing, with a...

HOUSE-BOAT ON THE GOODWINS Walmer, Kent.-—Early in the morning of the 9th"of November, 1947, the ex- Brixham trawler Toreador, towing from Brixham to Southend -another Brixham trawler, the Red Gauntlet, which had been converted into a...

TWICE IN TWO DAYS Whitby, Yorkshire.—, Shortly before mid-day on the 14th of November, 1947, the owner of the local fishing vessel Pilot Me reported that he had been told by wireless that her engine had failed. He had some new bolts being-...

THIS year there will again be a Christ- mas card and pocket calendar for sale.

The card is of eight pages with the Institution's crest embossed on the out- side. Inside are Christmas greetings and a picture in colours...

THE Maud Smith reward in memory of John, Seventh Earl of Hardwicke, for the bravest act of life-saving of the year by a life-boatman was awarded to Coxswain Douglas Kirk- aldie, of Ramsgate, for his courage on the 20th of August, 1952, in...