LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Search In High Wind
FOR a search carried out in a northwesterly wind of storm force, when a wind speed of over 107 miles per hour was recorded, letters of commendation have been sent to the members of the crew of the St. Helier life-boat and of a Jersey pilot...
Category: Services
Samsal
Stranded yacht AS DUSK FELL ON Tuesday, October 6, 1987, Liverpool Coastguard MRSC advised New Brighton's station honorary secretary, Captain John Billington, that a small yacht, believed to be the 24ft Samsal, had been observed possibly...
Two Brave Deeds
Awards at Herne Bay and The Gugh, Isles of Scilly.
THE Institution has made special awards for two acts of individual gallantry in saving life at sea. one by Mr. Frank Holness, of Herne Bav, the other by Mrs. G. B. Bond,...
Category: Awards
Spreety
Lifeboat and ILB AT 0813 ON WEDNESDAY August 17, 1977, HM Coastguard Aldeburgh requested the launch of Aldeburgh lifeboat to a yacht firing red flares about half a mile east of the lookout. Because of the difficulties of launching at low...
Sunbeam
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—On the afternoon of the 27th May the coastguard telephoned that a small vessel was aground on Scroby sands, bearing N.E. by E. from Yarmouth coastguard station. A rather heavy sea was...
Myrtle, and Morning Mist
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—About four in the afternoon of the 16th of July, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was in difficulties half a mile west of Whitaker Beacon. At 4.15 the life- boat Edward Z. Dresden was launched in a strong...
Skill and Gallantry In North Wales. The Silver Medal Awarded to Porthdinllaen
IT was the 8th of August in Porth- dinllaen. Mr. Jones and his two nephews had gone sailing in their small auxiliary yacht Waterbell; but when they did not return by half-past eight, Mrs. Jones became worried.
At 8.50 p.m....
Category: Services
New Members of Committee of Management
ME. PHILLIP COLVILLE M.B.E., Mr. E.
M. Cooper-Key, M.P., Mr. Roger Leigh- Wood and Commander A. J. O'Brien Twohig, have been co-opted members of the Committee of Management of the Royal National Life-boat Institu-...
Category: Committee
Arawatta
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—Just be- fore midnight on the 29th of August, 1949, the coastguard reported flares about three miles to the eastward, and the life-boat E.M.E.D. was launched twenty minutes after midnight. A south-westerly breeze...
Sandling
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 1.39 on the afternoon of the 14th of April, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that a yacht two miles to the southward appeared to have broken down. The sails had been lowered, but she had a ball at the mast head...