LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
D.S.O.
Captain R. L. Harriet, R.N., the depu:y chief inspector of life-boats, who was called up to the Navy at the outbreak of war, has won the D.S.O., "for courage and resource in successful attacks on enemy submarines".
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143 Medals for Gallantry.
In thirty months of war the Institution has awarded to- lite-boatmen 143 ajedals for gallantry, aad life-boatmen have also wen the Distinguished S*rvie» Med*i, the British Empire Medal aad the George Medal..
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Ladies' Life-Boat Guild.
The Duchess of Sutherland, who had been the President of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild since 1926, died last August. She has been succeeded as President by Lady Louis Mountbattcn, who has been a vice-president of the guild since 1926..<...
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Two Fishing Boats
On the 16th April, two fishing-boats belonging to this place were seen in distress some distance off the shore during squally weather. The Southwold life-boat went out to their help, and afterwards brought both boats, with their crews,...
FROM OARS TO WATERJETS
What has a 25-knot all-weather craft powered with waterjets got in common with a £300 wooden boat with 10 oars? They’re both fundraising targets set by The Lifeboat Fund – the UK civil service charity set up in aid of the RNLI. When the...
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An Aeroplane (32)
SEPTEMBER 6TH. - HASTINGS AND EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX. At 12.40 in the afternoon information was received from the coastguard and the police that anaeroplane was down in the sea. A fresh W.S.W. wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The aeroplane...
Various Vessels
JANUARY 11TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY, and PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. During the afternoon information was given by the coastguard to both stations that vessels had been torpedoed or mined six miles west of Rhoscolyn. The Holyhead motor...
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
SHIPWRECKED FISHERMEN AND MARINERS' ROYAL BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.
THE 25th Anniversary Meeting of this Institution wag held at the United Service Institution, Whitehall, on Friday, 3rd June, His Grace the DUKE OF M...
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Don
. At 5.30 A.M., OB the 14th February, the schooner Don, of Aberdeen, bound to Sunderland with chalk, stranded on the South Barber Sand during a strong S.
wind and a heavy sea. The No. 2 Lifeboat promptly went to her...
Maxim
"While a whole gale was blowing from S.W. on the 28th March, signals of distress were shown by the brigantine Maxim, of and from Drogheda for Liverpool, in ballast, which had stranded about three hundred yards south of the harbour. She...