LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

TWO LIFE-BOATS PUT OUT TO BELGIAN TRAWLER On the llth January, 1962, the Margate and Ramsgate life-boats put out to the help of the Belgian trawler Vert Rouwen, which had lost both her anchors in a gale. A full account of this service...

CRIES FOR HELP HEARD FROM FISHING BOAT Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 11.25 on the night of the 5th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor boat in the north bay was flashing a light and that cries for help...

MAN AND RAFT TAKEN ON BOARD Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 8.58 on the morning of the 24th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man on an inflated rubber raft was being blown out to sea.

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TWO LIFE-BOATS IN ALL-NIGHT SEARCH Torbay, and Exmouth, Devon. At 10.44 on the night of the 16th August, 1962, the Brixham coastguard passed on a report from a boat-owner, whose son had put out in a 20-foot motor boat three hours earlier to...

On I3th December, 1963, the Caister life-boat rescued seven of the crew of the trawler Loch Lorgan. A full account of this service, for which special awards were made to the coxswain and assistant motor mechanic, appears on page...

Selsey, Sussex—20th January. The life-boat made a long, but unsuccessful, search for a small boat. The boat, and later the bodies of the two men who had been on board, were washed ashore.—Rewards, £20 17s. 6d..

Cromer, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—During the gale on the East Coast on the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th November, the motor life-boats at Cromer and Great Yarmouth received seven calls for service.— Rewards £106 18*. (For...

The Maud Smith Bequest Award for the bravest act of lifesaving by a member of a lifeboat crew in 1974 has been awarded to Coxswain Tom Richard 'Ben' Tart of Dungeness. On February 11 the Dungeness lifeboat under Coxwain Tart's...