LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Obituary
IN addition to Mr. Hargood, whose death is recorded on the opposite page, the Committee of Management have recently lost two valued colleagues by the deaths of Sir William Priestley, a Vice-President of the Institution and Chairman of the...
Category: Obituaries
Monte Nervoso
On the 14th October the Italian steamer Monte Nevoso stranded on the Haisborough Sands. The Cromer Motor Life-boat rescued thirty men.—Rewards, £106 9s.
(A full account of this service appeared in the November issue of...
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The motor life-boat William Evans was launched at 11 A.M. on the 17th April, in response to a call from the mainland for the Parish Priest, when owing to the weather conditions no other suit- able boat was available.—No expense to the...
Luncheon Honour
Coxswain John King, of Bridlington, Yorkshire, who won the Institution's bronze medal for gallantry in February, 1968, for the rescue of a woman from the German m.v. Maria F, attended the 'Men of the Year' luncheon at the Savoy...
Category: Awards
Merak
FUTURE ACCOUNT Walton and Frinton, Essex. The lifeboat Edian Courtauld put out on I5th March, 1964, to the help of the Dutch motor vessel Merak. A full account of the service will appear in the next number of THE LIFE-BOAT.
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TWO YOUNG MEN TRAPPED IN CAVE St. Ives, Cornwall. At 2.26 on the afternoon of the 18th February, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two young men had been trapped by the rising tide at Smuggler's Cave, Hell's...
Joruna
SOUGHT CALM WATER Stromness, Orkneys. At 5.48 p.m. on I4th March, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Norwegian motor vessel Joruna of Oslo wanted to be escorted to calm water.
There was a...
A Sailboard
Humane Society awards for crew members Hunstanton - East Division Two members of Hunstanton's lifeboat crew have received Royal Humane Society awards for rescuing a windsurfer - with the station's launching tractor.
Pamela (1)
St. Mary's, Scilly Isles. At 9.55 on the evening of the 27th of September, 1958, the coxswain told the honorary secretary he had received a message thatthe fishing boat Pamela of Grimsby had left Tresco at 7.30 for St. Martin's but...
We Three
Life-boat 40-001 at Sheerness, Kent - At 5.35 a.m. on 26th May, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor boat was aground off Stoke Saltings, west of the Isle of Grain. At 5.45 the life-boat slipped her moorings in a...