LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

FOR a series of prolonged services extending over more than three days Coxswain Frank Bloom, of Walton and Frinton, has been awarded the Institution's bronze medal for gallantry. The other members of the crew have all been accorded the...

Station Redcar Torbay Worthing Mudeford Redcar Southwold Whitstable Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Hastings Largs St. Ives Mudeford Redcar Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Redcar West Mersea Redcar Torbay Aberystwyth North Sunderland Aberystwyth...

Letters...

tion by the Institution, i.e. medals, vellums and letters of thanks, but when there is extra space we will always try to include additional stories.

Unsung praises I refer to the News Point on...

Scarborough, Yorkshire. At six o'clock on the evening of the 22nd of August, 1959, the coastguard told the coxswain that the Dutch hospital ship De Hoop, which was bound for Scarborough and was due to arrive at eight...

WEXFORD.—At about 8th Feb. 1884, telegrams were received stating that a large fourmast ship was ashore on the Pollock Rocks n Fethard Bay. The wind was blowing a whole gale from the south and the sea was very heavy. Horses were procured as...

Portaferry lifeboat saving lives, 24/7 Photo: Patrick Baird. - View image in PDF

On the morning of the 6th January, during a terri- fic gale of wind from the S.E., the Ponte- fract and Goole life-boat went off through a very heavy sea, in reply to signals of dis- tress, and rescued the crew of 6 men from the brig Emanuel...

Jan, 10.—Two men waded into a heavy surf and assisted to save 15 men from a boat, which, while attempting to land at Seaton, CAREW, with 19 men on board belonging to the Nor- wegian B.8. -Edison and barque Kan, which had been in collision,...