LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
1939-45 Star for Life-Boatmen
The 1939-45 star has been awarded to all members of the crews of lifeboats in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland who were out on life-boat service 25 times or more during the war. Two hundred and fourteen men have qualified for...
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Lady Admiral
Eastbourne, Sussex. At 2.50 on the afternoon of the 28th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy had capsized in Pevensey Bay. At 3.6 the life-boat Beryl Tollemache was launched in a rough sea, with a...
A Steamer (2)
FEBRUARY 22ND. - SELSEY, SUSSEX.
A steamer had gone aground, but she was not found and was apparently towed away before the arrival of the life-boat. - Rewards, £13 11s. 6d..
A Steamer (17)
MARCH 11TH. - SALCOMBE, AND TORBAY, DEVON. A steamer had sunk after being in collision, twenty miles south by east of Berry Head, but the survivors were rescued by another vessel. - Rewards : Salcombe, £15 9s. ; Torbay, £13 1s..<...
Crocodile
RAMSGATE—On the 6th January the Life-boat Bradford, in tow of the steamtug Aid, left the harbour at 3.30 A.M., in a strong N.E. breeze with snow squalls and a heavy sea, signal guns having been fired from the Goodwin Sands. The tug and...
Septimus
QUEENSTOWN, IRELAND. — Telegrams were received on the 12th March, stating that a vessel was ashore at Boche's Point, and that the Life-boat was required, other boats being unable to reach her on account of the heavy sea. The Quiver No. 3...
Fountains Abbey
SURVIVORS LANDED FROM VESSEL ON FIRE Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 6.45 on the morning of the 13th February, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor trawler John O'Heugh was making for Lowestoft with the crew of...
A Trawler
Arranmore, Donegal - At 1 p.m. on 27th November, 1968, the honorary secretary was informed that a trawler which had broken down was drifting towards the rocks east of Owey island. The life-boat W. M. Tilson slipped her moorings at 1.40 in a...
Maria
The schooner Maria, of Fowey, whilst bound from Charlestown to Ghent, with a cargo of china clay, attempted to put into New- haven Harbour on the 12th February.
A strong southerly gale was blowing with a heavy sea, and the...
Middledale H.
New Brighton, Cheshire - At 9.30 a.m. on i6th April, 1967, while the lifeboat Norman B. Corlett was on exercise, information was received that the coaster Middledale H. had run aground off Langton dock. She had a line ashore and was waiting...