LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
To the Help of Two Rafts
Coxswain J. McLeod, of Thurso, Caithness-shire has won the bronze medal for gallantry in rescuing two exhausted men from a ship's raft when it was within two hundred yards of the rocks in a heavy sea. The life-boat then went to another...
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The S.S. Ida
The s.s. Ida, of Haugesand, on the 27th March, stranded on the Haisborough Sands, whilst bound from Newcastle to Rouen with a cargo of coal. A message was received from the Haisborough Light-vessel, reporting the casualty at about 6.15...
Walton and Frinton
WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX On the 21st December, 1945, the Walton and Frinton life-boat rescued the crew of five naval ratings of the motor fishing vessel No. 96, and the crew of six naval ratings of the motor fishing vessel No. 611.
Category: Medals
Vaila
Stronsay and Stromness, Orkneys.— At 8.36 on the evening of the 22nd of May, 1953, the Kirkwall coastguard rang up the Stronsay life-boat station to say that three men who had left Walls, Shetland, for Kirkwall in the thirty-feet motor boat...
Vaila (1)
Stronsay and Stromness, Orkneys.— At 8.36 on the evening of the 22nd of May, 1953, the Kirkwall coastguard rang up the Stronsay life-boat station to say that three men who had left Walls, Shetland, for Kirkwall in the thirty-feet motor boat...
Wimpie and the Barges Glenrosa, Maid of Munster and Audrey
Southend-on-Sea, and Walton and Frinton, Essex.—On 2nd June, 1938, in a whole gale the Southend-on-Sea motor life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3), rescued two men from the yacht Wimpie, of Southampton, and three men from the barge...
Spray
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 8.30 P.M. on the 18th August the Wyke coastguard reported a small craft in distress off Ringstead. A moderate breeze was blowing, with a very choppy sea. The motor life-boat William and Clara Ryland was launched at 8.38...
Progress
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 9.10 on the evening of the 13th of September, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been observed off Buchan Ness. The life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow left her moorings at...
Crystal River
Aberdeen - At 5.55 a.m. on i8th February, 1967, a red flare was reported on the north side of Girdleness lighthouse.
There was a light north westerly breeze with a moderate sea. It was one hour before high water. The...
Silver Minx
Barmouth, Merionethshire. At 3.45 on the afternoon of the 12th June, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a 35-feet yacht was aground a mile off Dyffryn on St.
Patrick's Causeway. There was a north-...