LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
San Remo Award
AT a meeting of the Committee of Management of the Institution in April it was decided to submit the name of Coxswain Daniel Kirkpatrick to the Italian Embassy in London for the San Remo "Figurehead of Courage" award for 1965. His...
Category: Awards
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Torbay's Arun class lifeboat Edward Bridges had to approach within inches of a cliff on 9 December 1988 to rescue a climber, who had fallen some 20ft into the sea at Berry Head.
The accident happened at a climb known as...
Commander H F P Grenfell Dsc
Commander H. F. P. Grenfell, DSC JP, a member of the Committee of Management from 1948. Commander Grenfell was made a vice-president of the Institution in 1961 and a life vicepresident in 1974. He also served on the boat and construction sub...
Category: Obituaries
From Sicily.
Over five pounds has come from an army chaplain in the field. It was collected", he said, "at the services held in the English Church - somewhere in Sicily, one Sunday last January.".
Category: Articles
Hugin
JULY 26TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 1.56 in the afternoon a message came from the coastguard that a vessel was aground on South Scroby Sands, two and a half miles from Yarmouth. The north-north-east wind was light, but the...
Marigold
On the 1st October the small motor fishing boat Marigold, of Thurso, which had gone out fishing, was overtaken by bad weather and was unable to return to harbour. A watch was kept on her for some time, and at 9 A.M. the Motor Life- boat...
Will Everard
Dungeness, Kent.—At 4.50 on the afternoon of the 21st of October, 1955, a man reported that a barge was burn- ing red flares about one and a half miles north-east of the life-boat station.
Ten minutes later the Lade...
Elsie
Workington, Cumberland. — At 7.50 in the evening of the 21st of June, 1952, a report was received through the coastguard that a boat was in dis- tress about three miles north-east of Whitehaven, and at 8.15 the life-boat N.T. was launched....
Kyle Rona
Barra Island, Hebrides.—During the night of the 31st October, 1938, a whole south-westerly gale sprang up, and the steamer Kyle Rona, of Glasgow, which was at anchor in the bay, lost one of her anchors and was in danger of being driven on...
Sea Lavender
Aldeburgh, Suffolk - At 9.10 p.m.
on 13th June, 1966, the coxswain was told that a yacht lying off Aldeburgh was being kept under observation. At 9.30 the yacht fired a distress signal. The lifeboat The Alfred and Patience...