LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Vert Rouwen (1)
TWO LIFE-BOATS PUT OUT TO BELGIAN TRAWLER On the llth January, 1962, the Margate and Ramsgate life-boats put out to the help of the Belgian trawler Vert Rouwen, which had lost both her anchors in a gale. A full account of this service...
Loch Lorgan
On I3th December, 1963, the Caister life-boat rescued seven of the crew of the trawler Loch Lorgan. A full account of this service, for which special awards were made to the coxswain and assistant motor mechanic, appears on page...
A Small Boat
Selsey, Sussex—20th January. The life-boat made a long, but unsuccessful, search for a small boat. The boat, and later the bodies of the two men who had been on board, were washed ashore.—Rewards, £20 17s. 6d..
Various Boats
Cromer, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—During the gale on the East Coast on the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th November, the motor life-boats at Cromer and Great Yarmouth received seven calls for service.— Rewards £106 18*. (For...
Annual Awards 1974
The Maud Smith Bequest Award for the bravest act of lifesaving by a member of a lifeboat crew in 1974 has been awarded to Coxswain Tom Richard 'Ben' Tart of Dungeness. On February 11 the Dungeness lifeboat under Coxwain Tart's...
Category: Awards
Yesterday
Yesterday . . . 'The Illustrated London News' records the first launch, in 1867, of Licensed Victualler, the first RNLI lifeboat to be stationed at Hunstanton. Boat, carriage and a 'commodious house' were paid for by the...
Category: Drawings
Service to Junella:
Service to Junella: Just alter midnight on September 29. 1980. Stornoway's 48ft 6in Solent lifeboat, Hugh William Viscount Cough, under the command of Coxswain Malcolm MacDonald launched on service to the motor fishing vessel Junella....
Category: Services
Clacton from Page 119
raised £630 to pay for the radio in the ILB. Clacton Round Table presented £100. St Osyth Training College gave the proceeds of its annual rag week, £300. Clacton Operatic Society presented £150. Tollesbury Sailing Club...
Category: Articles