LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Cromarty.—At 10.0 on the morning of the 12th of February, 1951, the coast- guard telephoned that a fishing boat was aground on the West Riff Sand- bank near Rosemarkie. At 10.17 the life-boat John Russell, on temporary duty at the station,...

Whitehllls, Banff shire. — At 9.30 in the morning of the 21st of November, 1951, a fishing boat wirelessed that another fishing boat, the Speedwell, of Macduff, was in difficulties twenty miles north-north-west of Whitehills and at 10.5 the...

The Maud Smith Bequest for the bravest lifesaving act by a lifeboatman in 1976 has been made to Crew Member Glyn Roberts of Porthdinllaen for the rescue, last August, of two boys who were trapped on the cliffs. Glyn Roberts climbed almost...

COXSWAIN Dermot Walsh of the Valentia, Co. Kerry, life-boat has been awarded a silver medal and six of the crew members accorded the Institution's thanks on vellum, for courageous rescue operations oif the west coast of Ireland.

ABOUT 6.30 on the evening of the 15th July, 1962, a party of four people and a dog put to sea from Axmouth harbour, near Seaton, in a 12-foot 6-inch motor boat driven by a 5 horse-power out- board engine. After about an hour the man in...

LIFE-BOAT COXSWAIN DIES AFTER HIS FISHING BOAT SINKS Coverack, Cornwall. On Tuesday the 30th of July, 1963, a telephone message was received by the second coxswain from the mechanic that the fishing vessel Bessey III, of Coverack, owned by...

Margate, Kent - At 7.32 p.m. on 22nd August, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that cries for help had been heard in the vicinity of Longnose buoy. At 7.58 the life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched...

THE members of the crews of the Scarborough and Teesmouth life-boats have both received framed letters of appreciation signed by the Chairman of the Committee of Management, Captain the Hon V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N., for their services on the...