LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Ronswick (Yorkshire) Life-boat was unable to get to the wreck and was driven ashore, 8th February, 1926.. - View image in PDF

Coxswain Walter Pestell, of Palling, Norfolk, who died on 25th February, at the age of eighty-five, joined the Palling Life-boat Crew at the age of eighteen.

Six years later, in 1870, he was appointed Coxswain, and served...

On the 23rd February, the steam Lifeboat was called out by signals from the Formby and Crosby light vessels, and on reaching the latter found she had a shipwrecked crew on board. Their vessel, the schooner Caroline, of Fowey, had lost her...

Thurso, Caithness-shire - At 7.20 a.m.

on llth May, 1968, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Tungsha of Toiisberg was making for Thurso bay with a passanger who had suffered a heart attack. She...

Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At 10.10 on the morning of the 4th of September, 1958, a message was re- ceived from Ballymacaw harbour that a fishing boat had broken down with engine trouble a quarter of a mile off shore. At 10.15 the life...

PorfhdinJlaen, Caernarvonshire. At 7.30 on the evening of the 23rd of September, 1958, a message was re- ceived from the coastguard that a small dinghy was in difficulties north-east of Porthdinllaen Point. The life-boat Charles Henry...

Air Chief Marshal Sir Fredrick Bowhill, G.B.E., K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. and Bar, died on the 12th of March, 1960, at the age of 79. He had a most distinguished career lasting some fifty years in the Merchant Navy, the Royal Naval Air Service...

THE 1963 award made under the terms of the James Michael Bower Endow- ment Fund established by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company has been made to Coxswain Hubert Ernest Petit, of St. Peter Port, gold medallist, and...