LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Guild Honorary Secretary, -- M.B.E.
Mrs. Hilda C. Brown, who has been honorary secretary of the Withernsca Ladies' Life-boat Guild since 1926, and was awarded the Institution's gold badge in 1937, has been made an M.B.E. for her many public services during the war..<...
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Sea Time running out
The yacht Sea Time was running out of fuel, 18 miles from shore. She had been battling gale-force conditions for 16 hours on 9 September 2008 when Llandudno’s Mersey class lifeboat Andy Pearce was launched. A lifeboat crew member went...
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An Aeroplane (74)
SEPTEMBER 26TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
An aeroplane had dropped into the sea in flames, but it was learned later that the airmen had been rescued and the life-boat was recalled. - Rewards, £6 17s..
An Aeroplane (90)
DECEMBER 19TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the life-boat found nothing. Later a body was washed ashore. A letter of thanks was received from Air Commodore of the R.A.F....
A Steamer (4)
MCH. 22ND. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
A steamer had collided with a trawler seventeen miles N.N.E. of the Humber. She was badly damaged and began to sink, but her crew were rescued by the trawler. - Permanent paid crew :...
A Fishing Coble
The Lady Leigh Life- boat of this station saved 6 men from a Ashing coble in great danger off this Port on the 8th Feb..
Ernestine, of Amsterdam
On the 25th March this Life-boat again assisted, together with other boats and steam-tugs, in saving the ship Ernestine, of Amsterdam..
Mary Henderson
On 19th November only one fishing boat had put out, the Mary Henderson, with three men on board. A moderate S.E.
breeze was blowing with a very heavy swell. As at 1.20p.M. the boat had not returned, and the seas at the...
A Schooner
In the early hours of the morning of 5th April, the Coxswain was roused by fishermen who reported that a vessel was apparently in distress on the South Tail. Although no signals of distress were seen, it was thought advisable to send out the...
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
Coxswain's Certificate of Service.
A COXSWAIN'S CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE, and a PENSION, have been awarded to CHARLES LACOCK, 16| years coxswain, 1J years second coxswain, and 4J years bowman of the Caister...
Category: Awards