LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Award for Bravest Life-Saving Act In 1956
THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving in 1956 has been won by Reginald Carey, of Coverack, Cornwall.
Reginald Carey, who is normally second coxswain of the Coverack lifeboat, was acting coxswain when the...
Category: Awards
A Motor Boat (1)
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man. At 7.43 p.m. on 4th July, 1965, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small motor boat with two men on board was overdue and that further inquiries were being made. In the meantime the coxswain and...
1st Walton Viking Sea Scouts
A cheque for £350 for Walton and Hersham branch is presented by Richard Holley (centre left) to Sydney Gillingham, deputy regional organiser (South East). Around them are the members of the 1st Walton Viking Sea Scouts who had raised... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Alabama, of Goole
HUNSTANTON.—Early on the 14th April the schooner Alabama, of Goole, while on a voyage from Cliff Creek to Hull was wrecked on the Woolpack Sands, during a gale at E.N.E., accompanied by a heavy fall of snow. The Life-boat Licensed Victualler...
Alice
Stromness, Orkney.—On the afternoon of the 31st of January, 1957, a severe gale sprang up and anxiety was felt for the safety of the local fishing boat Alice, which had not returned from the lobster fishing grounds off Hoy Head.
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J. T. and S.
Holyhead, Anglesey. At 4.5 on the morning of the 17th of March, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a schooner, which was sheltering in Holyhead harbour, was dragging her anchors and was in danger of going ashore. At...
Rotha
Cromer, Norfolk - At 1.15 a.m. on 19th December, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there was a sick man on board the trawler Rotha which was 10 miles north east of the Haisboro light vessel. As poor visibility due to...
Southlands
SOLITARY WATCHMAN RESCUED Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 6.10 in the evening of the 16th of March, 1947, the motor life-boat Crawford and Con- stance Conybeare was launched to a ship on the rocks at St. Just, Falmouth Harbour. A strong westerly gale...
Tarifa
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 5.3 on the afternoon of the 24th of August, 1957, the Wyke Regis coastguard reported that the yacht Tarifa was in diffi- culties some three miles south of Portland Bill. The life-boat William and Clara Ryland put out at...
Careema
Lowestoft, Suffolk. At midnight on the 31st July, 1961, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser was flashing distress signals about a mile east-south-east of Lowes- toft harbour. There was a light south-...