LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To ROBEBT EsoiAND, on his retirement, after To RICHARD WmiAMS, on bis retirement, serving 25 years as Signalman, and formerly after serving ten years as Second Coxswain, 17 years as a member of the crew of the and one year as Bowman of the...
Category: Awards
Boy's Own and Pioneer
Flamborough, Yorkshire.—The No. 1 motor life-boat Elizabeth and Albina Whitley was launched at 1.30 P.M. on the 19th October, as the weather was very bad and two cobles were at sea.
A north gale was blowing, with a heavy...
Golden Hope
At 10 A.M.
on the 25th February the Coastguard at Kilkeel reported that there was a skiff apparently in difficulties and in want of assistance about five miles off.
Within ten minutes of the message being...
La Colina
HELP FOR SICK MAN At 9 p.m. on the same day the port medical officer told the honorary secretary that the motor vessel La Colina would be arriving off Mounts Bay at 11 o'clock, bringing a sick man on board who needed hospital treatment....
M.F.V. Hopeful
Ireland Division Fishing boat sinks ROSSLARE HARBOUR PORT AUTHORITY informed the deputy launching authority at 2220 on Saturday, June 19, that MFV Hopeful with two men on board was taking water and sinking rapidly in a position about two...
Jeune Hortense
PENZANCE. — The brigantine Jeune Hortense, of Nantes, bound from Brest for Fowey, in ballast, dragged her anchors during a heavy ground sea on the 17th May, and drove ashore on the Eastern Green just under the Long Rock. The Dora Life-boat...
A Boat (4)
JUNE 12TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. A small boat had capsized, but a motor boat rescued the crew. A donation and a letter of thanks were received in gratitude for the launching of the life-boat.-Rewards, £2 16s..
Ivy Lea
Aith, Shetland*.—At' 10 o'clock on the night of the 27th of January, 1949, a member of the crew of the motor fishing vessel Ivy Lea, of Lerwick, which had put out the previous morn- ing, telephoned that the Ivy Lea had broken down,...
None (3)
Dover, Kent.—At 11.48 on the night of the 9th of March, 1954, the Sandgate coastguard telephoned that a woman had scrambled down a cliff near St.
Margaret's Bay. She had gone down to comfort her dog, which had fallen...
Cecilia
At 3.30 P.M.
information was received that a vessel was flying signals of distress, and the crew of the Life-boat Charles Whiiton were assembled and the boat proceeded to sea in a heavy W.N.W. gale. When two miles S. by E....