LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Tug (2)
DECEMBER. 8TH. - SWANAGE, DORSET.
A tug had capsized and five members of her crew of nine had been saved by another tug, but the life-boat could find none of the other four. - Rewards, £26 4s..
Life-Boat Station Bombed.
Recently the Tynemouth life-boat station was hit by a high explosive bomb.
The boat house and motor life-boat were destroyed, and the launching slipway was damaged. The station will shortly be re-opened, with a motor...
Category: Articles
A Motor Fishing Boat
MAY 31ST. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
A motor fishing boat of Bridlington had broken down, but was towed into Bridlington by a Whitby fishing boat.- Permanent paid crew : Rewards, 6s.
An Aeroplane (150)
OCTOBER 2ND. - CLOVELLY, DEVON.
Au aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found. Soldiers helped in the launch of the life-boat. - Rewards, £31 5s.
An Aeroplane (147)
SEPTEMBER 20TH. - HOLYHEAD , ANGLESEY, AND PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. An R.A.F. Anson trainer aeroplane had come down in the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards : Holyhead, £5 ; Porthdinllaen, £13 6s.
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An Admiralty Minelayer (1)
NOVEMBER 22ND. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE, AND PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE. An Admiralty minelayer had run aground, but her crew were saved from the shore by the coastguard life-saving apparatus. - Rewards, Barmouth, £8 6s. ;...
Henry Blogg of Cromer
Henry Blogg of Cromer was awarded more medals for gallantry than any other RNLI lifeboatmen: three gold and four silver. He served in Cromer crew from 1894 and was coxswain from 1909 to 1947, through two world... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
Certificates of Service and Pensions.
The COXSWAIN'S CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE, and a PENSION, have been awarded to: WILLIAM MATTHEWS, 20 years coxswain and 4 years second coxswain of the Beaumaris life-boat.
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Category: Awards
The S.S.Pandora and the S.S. Gripfast (1)
Tessmouth, Whitby, and Runswick, Yorkshire. — In the morning of the 22nd of October, 1951, the S.S.Pandora, of Beaumaris, foundered in a gale and a very heavy sea one and a half miles off Runswick, with the loss of her crew of six. The...
Solstad
OC T. 10T H . - BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS, AND ABERDEEN. The Swedish vessel Solstad, of Karlstad, had been reported in distress with her steering gear dis-abled, about fifteen miles S.E. of Montrose, and the Montrose motor life-boat was unable...