LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Bravest Deeds of 1951
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...
Category: Awards
Lynian
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 11.30 on the night of the 6th of August, 1958, a fisherman on returning ashore re- ported to the signal station that he had seen a flare east of Herm. He had carried out a search but had found nothing. At one...
Delila
. Aberdeen, and Newburgh, Aberdeenshire.
—Early on the morning of the 4th November, 1937, the steam trawler Delila, of Aberdeen, ran aground about a mile, south of the Belhelvie coastguard station. She was homeward bound...
The S.S. Terlings
SEAHAM, Co. DURHAM.—At 6.30 A.M.
on the 6th May the s.s. Terlings, of London, bound from Bochester for Seaham, in ballast, in approaching the harbour during a fog went too far to the southward, struck the rocks and filled....
Angus Rose
Montrose, Angus. At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 5th of March, 1958, Stonehaven radio informed the honor- ary secretary that the fishing boat Angus Rose of Montrose needed help three miles off Montrose as her propeller had been fouled by...
Velin-heli
ST. ANNE'S, LANCASHIRE. — On the evening of the 17th December, signals were shown by the schooner Velin-heli, of Carnarvon, which had stranded on the Salthouse Bank while she was being towed to Preston, two days previously, during thick...
Aircraft (2)
JULY 13TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. Aircraft had been reported down but nothing could be found. The life-boat was short of her regular crew, but the honorary secretary, Captain A. G. Cole, the district inspector, Commander E. D. Drury, O.B...
Virgin
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. — At 11.30 in the night of the 15th of Septem- ber, 1949, the parents of a fisherman and two boys reported that their sons had put out in the motor fishing boat Virgin, of Castlebay, but were now overdue. The...
Provider
Troon, Ayrshire.—At 10 P.M. on the 19th February, 1938, the harbour look-out reported that a fishing boat had not returned as expected. Later a mast-light was seen, and as it was stationary, the motor life-boat Sir David Richmond of Glasgow...
Boy's Own
DECEMBER 16TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. The motor life-boat Elizabeth and Albina Whitley was launched at 11.45 A.M. in a heavy S.S.E. gale, with a rough sea, to the help of the local motor fishing coble Boy's Own. She found her six...