LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE thanks of the R.N.L.I. inscribed on vellum, for the rescue of two men from a cabin cruiser, have been awarded to Robert Chalk, helmsman; Gordon Easton, motor mechanic; and D. Morgan of the Southend-on-Sea IRB.

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BURNHAM, SOMERSETSHIRE. — On the morning of the 9th December, 1886, the barque Fremad, of Tonsberg, bound from West Bay, Nova Scotia, for Bristol, with deals and battens, showed signals of distress daring a heavy gale from the W. by N. The...

BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—A vessel having been observed stranded on Bernbridge Ledge, the Life-boat Queen Victoria was launched at 8.50 P.M. on the 2nd January and proceeded through a rough sea, the wind blowing a strong gale from W.N.W., to...

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on the 20th January a telephone message was received from the Coastguard report- ing that a vessel was ashore at Thorpe- ness. The No. 2 Life-boat Edward Dresden was launched and found the s.s. Monkwood, of...

Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At 1.20 in the afternoon of the 5th of May, 1949, the Wick coastguard telephoned that a drifter was in difficulties off Sandside.

The life-boat H.C.J. was launched twenty minutes later. A moderate...

Mr. James Bryce Allan, who had been a member of the Committee of Management since 1930, died on the 12th of May, 1960. He had served on the Construction and General Purposes Committees of the Institution.

Mr. Allan was a...

LANCE-CORPORAL RAMBAHADUR, who this year was awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery in Sarawak, was in June taken for a trip in Eastbourne's IRB He was staying at Upper Dicker at the home of Major J. Gales, an officer in the loth...

At 1.50 p.m. on 20th October, 1966, a longshore boat was seen burning a red flare off Pakefield beach, two miles north of Lowestoft harbour entrance. The lifeboat Frederick Edward Crick slipped her moorings ten minutes later in a fresh...