LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Coxswain Cross Again.
Coxswain Robert Cross of the Humber, who has won, since war began, the George Medal, the Institution's gold medal, a clasp to his silver medal and the thanks of the Institution on vellum, has now won also a clasp to his bronze medal.<...
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Drawing from Experience
Keith lli:ih hn, the ItNIJ's Senior Naval Arrhitn t. looks :it lifeboat development over the past 175 v. rs, Modern lifeboats are highly sophisticated craft with unique features which enable them to survive when lesser craft would be in...
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Marie Annie
During the afternoon of the llth April, the brigan- tine Mary Annie, of Folkestone, stranded on the sands to the westward of the Cockle Light-vessel, and a yawl put off to her assistance. On reaching the vessel the men in the yawl found that...
Farringay (1)
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire - At n p.m. on 2ist March, 1967, news was received that the m.v. Farringay was aground on Salters Bank and a tug was awaiting high water to tow her off. In view of the prevailing weather conditions the...
Margaret Jane
On the 13th October, a steamer was seen dragging her anchors in a whole gale and a rough sea. She collided with the schooner Margaret Jane, of Bangor, and drove across the bows of the Trinitysteamer Stella. In response to signals of distress...
Georges Edouard
JANUARY 4TH. - EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX.
At 8.45 P.M. the coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore off the York Hotel, Eastbourne. A light N.E. wind was blowing, with a moderately rough sea. The motor life-boat Jane Holland...
Sea Wolf
Walton and Frinton, Essex - At 11.45 a-m- on 6th October, 1966, the local motor cruiser Sea Wolf reported by R/T that she had lost her rudder and might need assistance. The life-boat Edian Courtauld left her moorings at 12.54 p.m. It was two...
Tequila
OWNER'S GRATITUDE Dungeness, Kent. At 11.30 a.m. on 15th October, 1963, a man informed the honorary secretary that a small boat had fired two flares 150 yards off shore between Galloways and Dungeness. The life-boat Mabel E. Holland was...
Kaylena
Newhaven, Sussex. — About three o'clock on the afternoon of the 7th of August, 1950, information was received that a small motor boat seemed to need help, one mile off Cuckmere Haven, At 3.20 the life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott was...
A Ship’s Boat marked D.383 V.H.JB.
FEBRUARY 3RD. - LYTHAM - ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. At 5.30 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that a ship’s boat could be seen in the river by the Twelfth Mile Light. A strong south-east breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. It was...