LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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John S. Oke who, together with his wife, founded the Holsworthy branch in 1975 and was its chairman until his death.

He was awarded a silver badge in 1986..

The Thomas Wilson life-boat also went out three times to the brig John, of Hartlepool, which had gone ashore at Cape Kerr Point; and on the last occasion was tile means of rescuing the master, who had remained on board helpless after his...

MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.—-About dark on the evening of the 29th April the schooner John, of Runcorn, bound from Penmaenmawr to Dublin, was observed in a dangerous position in Moelfre Bay, during a strong gale from the...

Ex-coxswain John Walters died on 2nd September, 1965, at the age of 66. A distinguished member of the life-boat service, he had served as coxswain of the Fowey life-boat for over twenty-five years. He was awarded the Institution's bronze...

CARNSORE, Co. WEXFOBD.—On the night of the 26th November intelligence reached this Life-boat station that a ship was in distress about two miles and a half to the westward of Kilmore, which is twelve miles from Carnsore. Without loss of time...

CAISTER.—On the morning of the 6th January, the No. 2 Life-boat Beauchamp was launched in a very heavy sea and proceeded to the North Scroby Sand where the barque Wallace J. John, of Gluckstadt, had been totally...

COXSWAIN JOHN GILL, of Galway Bay, who served as bowman from 1932 to 1933, second coxswain from 1933 to 1938 and coxswain from 1938 to 1943, was awarded the bronze medal in 1938 for the rescue of eleven men when the steam trawler Nogi went...