LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Wicklow, County Wicklow. — On the 10th of September, 1950, the Wicklow life-boat rescued the crew of eleven of the M.V. Cameo of Glasgow.—Rewards, to Coxswain Edward Kavanagh, the bronze medal for gallantry; to motor mechanic J. Bonus, the...

EIGHT members of the Dover life-boat crew, Coxswain T. Walker, Second Coxswain W. Cockings, Mechanic II.

Pegg, Second Mechanic A. Liddon and Life-boatmen D. Briggs. S. Liddon, J.

Sharp and A. Whiting, were...

On the 13th of July, 1952, the Mar- gate life-boat went to the help of a small yacht ashore on Margate sands, and the assistant mechanic waded through the surf to bring two men off the yacht.—Rewards, The thanks of the Institution inscribed...

ONE of the principal speakers at the dinner of the Outward Bound Trust held at the Savoy Hotel, London, on the 28th of April was Coxswain Sidney Page, of Southend. The speakers were introduced by Mr. Wynford Vaughan Thomas, who paid "a...

On the 13th of May, 1953, the Valentia life-boat found the French trawler Liberator, of Camaret, south of the Blasket Islands after an eight- hour search in a very rough sea. The coxswain took the life-boat close to the stern of the trawler...

COXSWAIX HERBERT RAWCLIFFE, who was appointed coxswain of the Fleet- wood life-boat on the 1st of January.

1954. lost his life in February in an accident at sea in the course of his duties as a Trinity House pilot.

On the night of the 23rd of January, 1954, the Montrose, Angus, and the Aberdeen life-boats both went to the help of the fishing boat Poseidon, of Rothesay, whose engines had broken down. A south-easterly gale was blowing, and there was a...

Coxswain Richard Walsh, of the Rosslare Harbour, County Wexford, life-boat—the new 48-foot 6-inch Oakley which is described on page 678. He became bowman in 1938, second coxswain in 1941 and finally coxswain in 1946. Coxswain Walsh was... - View image in PDF