LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At 2 P.M. on 21st November, the same Life-boat was launehed to the disabled Norwegian brig Brodrenes Saab, of Tons- berg, which vessel exhibited signals of distress, it blowing hard at the time from the N.N.E. At the request of the master...

PORTRUSH.—The brigantine Sunshine, of and from St. John, N.B., laden with timber, arrived off Coleraine Bar on the 4th July and anchored, waiting for a sufficient depth of water to enable her to cross the bar. On the 10th a gale from the N.E...

On the 14th March, when a fresh southerly breeze was blowing, and a rough sea was | running, the fishing-coble Sunbeam was j delayed some hours behind the others, in consequence of the night being very dark with snow falling heavily and the...

COXSWAIN HENRY BROWN and crew of the Walmer life-boat have been awarded a framed letter of thanks, signed by the Chairman of the Institution, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, C.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., for rescuing three people from a yacht which had...

Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 11.55 a.m. on 9th October, 1965, the coastguard notified the coxswain that a sailing dinghy had capsized one and a half miles east of the station. At 12 o'clock the IRB launched at high water in a strong...

YACHT TOWED OFF ROCKS IN GALE Angle, Pembrokeshire. At 12.47 on the afternoon of the 29th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was in distress close inshore off West Dale Point. There was a...

Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 7.5 on the evening of the 13th of March, 1954, the Sheerness police reported that the salvage vessel Juniper, of London, was driving towards the cliffs at Minster, Isle of Sheppey. At 7.30 the life-boat Greater...

Coxswain William Gammon, of the Mumbles, Glamorganshire, who won the bronze medal in 1941 for rescuing the crew of a ship wrecked among the coast defences, has now won the gold medal for rescuing the crew of 42 of a Canadian frigate...