LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Life-boat, John Burch, had just returned from exercise and been replaced in her house on the 25th August, when a vessel was observed near the Scroby Sands with her sails blown away. The vessel brought up but commenced to drive on to the...

About 10 P.M.

on the 16th March the wind veered to the west and increased to a gale, and half an hour later the Coastguard reported that a ketch, which was at anchor in the bay, was making signals of...

Hartlepool, Durham; and Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—About eight o'clock on the evening of the 8th of December, 1954, the Hartlepool coastguard learnt that the motor vessel Martje, of Groningen, was sending distress signals fifty miles...

Hartlepool, Durham; and Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—About eight o'clock on the evening of the 8th of December, 1954, the Hartlepool coastguard learnt that the motor vessel Martje, of Groningen, was sending distress signals fifty miles...

Teesmouth, Yorkshire. — At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 20th of August, 1955, the life-boat motor me- chanic reported that the S.S. Basalt,which had been unloading scrap from a wreck, had gone aground on Salt Scar Rocks. At three...

THE Institution has awarded the " Miss Maud Smith's reward for courage, in memory of John, Seventh Earl of Hardwicke," for the bravest act of life- saving by a life-boatman in 1950, to W.

Arnell, of the Selsey...

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 Alfred R. Wilson, of Margate, for going on board the yacht Girlanda in the darkness of the...

The Thanks of the Institution on Vellum.

The THANKS OF THE INSTITUTION INSCRIBED ON VELLUM has been awarded to : Mr. J. G. McMoRRis, on his retirement after 24 years as honorary secretary of the Portrush...