THE following is a list of the cases in which the ROYAL NATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK have voted Honorary or Pecuniary Rewards, to persons who have been instrumental in saving lives during the year...
Category: Medals
RESCUE IN WORST WEATHER FOR 20 YEARS WHEN on 20th November, 1971, red flares were sighted in the area of the Wallet Spitway buoy, the Clacton, Essex, life-boat Valentine Wyndham- Quin was launched at 6.17 p.m. The wind was south south west...
Eleven men and fishing vessel saved In winds gusting to 90 knotsA difficult service in winds up to almost 90 knots earned coxswain / mechanic Hewitt Clark of the Lerwick lifeboat a Bronze Medal, recognising his leadership, seamanship and...
In addition to the former life-boat stations described in our first Number, we are now enabled to state, that life-boats have recently been placed at Teignmouth, Tenby, Hornsea, and Palling; while others are in course of construction for...
Category: Articles
FEBRUARY 20TH. - TYNEMOUTH, AND CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 8.13 in the morning the honorary secretary at Tynemouth had a telephone call from the Port War Signal Station that one ofH.M. trawlers had struck a mine about...
MV Lovat sinks ON SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1975, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Penlee lifeboat at 0637 that MV Lovat had broadcast a mayday call and that her crew were abandoning ship.
The reported position...
Lifeboat Services (from page 263) the whaleboat which had drifted further to leeward to within about 100' from the cliffs near the Cote du Nord hotel.
His crew managed to get a grapnel into the whaleboat and they towed...
Category: Services
Tidal race DURING THE AFTERNOON Of Sunday August 28,1983, Swanage lifeboat crew were assembled after consultation between the station's deputy launching authority (DLA) and Swanage Coastguard. An 18ft yacht had been sighted trying to...
Family rescued AT 2125 ON SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1987, Hartland Coastguard informed Clovelly lifeboat's Staff Coxswain Roger Smith that the 29ft yacht Moon Dragon required immediate assistance two miles west of Hartland...
[The following article appeared in the Lytham St. Annes Express on the 12th of March. It is reproduced by kind permission of the editor.] COULD you do what Lytham life-boat- men do when they are called out on an emergency? Could you...
Category: Articles