LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To JOHN E. MORRIS, on his retirement, after serving for 17J years as coxswain and 3 moaths as bowman of the Barmouth lifeboat, a coxswain's certificate of service and an annuity.
To JOHN C. SNELL, on his retirement,...
Category: Awards
Parliamentary Question on Helicopters
IN the House of Commons on the 14th of March, 1956, Mr. S. S. Awbery, M.P., for Bristol Central, asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Avia- tion how many attempts had been made by helicopter to assist ship- wrecked seamen; how many...
Category: Articles
Moray Firth
Teesmouth, Yorkshire.-—At eleven •o'clock on the night of the 26th of November, 1952, the South Gare light- house keeper telephoned that a vessel had gone aground on the training wall in the River Tees, and that tugs which had been...
A Vessal Called Seierskrandsen
In re- sponse to a message on the 3rd August stating that a vessel was ashore on the Loe Bar, the Life-boat John Francis White was launched at 8.15 P.M. The Life-boat proceeded to the bar and met the men belonging to the stranded vessel in...
Awards to Honorary Workers
Mr. J. J. LINES has been appointed an Honorary Life-Governor of the Institution in recog- nition of the distinguished services he has rendered as Honorary Secretary of the New- haven Station Branch for upwards of 30 years, and has been...
Category: Awards
The S.S. Commandant Charles Meric
On the 1st March the s.s.
Commandant Charles Meric, of Bay- onne, ran aground on the Cross Sand while bound from the Tyne to Bordeaux with a cargo of coal. She carried a crew of thirty. There was very little wind, but the...
Carillion, of Cowes
RACE CASUALTY While the yacht Carillion of Cowes was taking part in the Fastnet race on 5th August, 1971, she struck rocks off the Lizard and was damaged.
At 9.30 p.m. the life-boat Duke of Cornwall (Civil Service JVo. 33)...
The Russian Fish Factory Vessel Robert Eykhe
AMBULANCE CALL WHEN on 16th January, 1972, a Russian fish factory ship, anchored 30 miles west of Guernsey, requested assistance to take off a sick man requiring hospital treatment, the St. Peter Port, Guernsey, life-boat went...
Temple Queen
Standing into danger A MOTOR CRUISER, Temple Queen, unsure of her position in a dangerous area just north of the entrance to Strangford Lough was reported to Portaferry lifeboat station by Belfast Coastguard at1900 on Sunday May 17. It was a...
Penlee Lifeboat Disaster
Penlee Lifeboat Disaster With great sorrow the death is announced of the coxswain and crew of Penlee lifeboat which was lost on service on the night of Saturday December 19, 1981.
Penlee lifeboat, the 47ft Watson Solomon...
Category: Obituaries