LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Awards to Coxswains and Crews
The following coxswains and members of life-boat crews have been awarded certificates of service, and in addition those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations have been awarded an annuity or a retirement allowance and a...
Category: Awards
The Cuttle and Thorpe Grange
TOWED TO MOORINGS At 7.30 a.m. on 6th October, 1964, the nightwatchman reported that the reserve life-boat The Cuttle appeared to be dragging her anchor inside Spurn Point, in the rough seas and near gale force westerly winds. At 7.50 the...
Kingston Turquoise and two Rafts
SURVIVORS ON RAFT Stromness, Orkneys. At 5 p.m. on 25th January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that they had received a Mayday from the trawler Kingston Turquoise of Hull approximate position fourteen miles northnorth-...
A Speed Boat and Heidi
Walmer, Kent. At 3.15 on the after- noon of the 19th of February, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a speedboat had capsized opposite Deal coastguard station about half a mile off shore. The life-boat Charles Dibdin...
La Colina and Steamer Mergus
Penlee, Cornwall. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 25th June, 1961, the honorary secretary received a message that the life-boat would be needed to meet the motor vessel La Colina of London off the Wolf Rock lighthouse and take...
British Aviator and Crystal Jewel
Eastbourne, Sussex. At ten o'clock on the morning of the 23rd September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the tanker British Aviator and the motor vesselCrystalJewel, both of London, had been in collision eight...
Lucy and a Speed Boat
Broken rudder THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Poole Lifeboat station was informed by Portland RHQ at 0750 on Tuesday, August 23 that a Dutch warship had reported a 25' yacht, Lucy, with a broken rudder 23 miles south of Anvil...
Awards to Coxswains and Crews
THE following coxswains and members of life-boat crews were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and in addition those entitled to them, by the Institution's regulations, were awarded an annuity or a retirement allowance...
Category: Awards
Girl Christian and Minehead Angler
Escort LAND'S END COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Padstow lifeboat station at 0150 on Thursday October 16, 1980, that the fishing vessel Girl Christian was reported to be in difficulties four miles north of Trevose Head.<...