LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Steamer (1)
JANUARY 11TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. The coastguard had passed on a message from Ostend Radio that a steamer had signalled that she had struck a mine, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £10 6s..
A Year of War.
In the first year of war life-boats were launched to the rescue 1108 times and rescued 2302 lives. They rescued more lives in this one year of war than in the last five years of peace. They rescued on the average 44 lives a week. In the last...
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To Another Naval Trawler
Coxswain Duncan Newlands, of Campbeltown, Argyllshire, has also won the vellum for rescuing the crew of a naval trawler which had gone on the rocks on the Isle of Arran. He rescued them in a gale on a very cold night, with snow falling and a...
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From a Prisoner of War
A lieutenant of the R.N.V.R. "just returned safely" after nine years overseas, two in Hoag Kong, three in Shanghai, and four in a prisoners' of war camp, has sent the Institution £5, and become an annual...
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A Gift of Gold
The Institution has received, carefully packed in cotton wool, 46 sovereigns and n half sovereigns. All but two have Queen Victoria's head, and their dates range from 1845 to 1901. They came with the message -for those in peril on the...
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Medals for Gallantry In 1946
FOUR medals for gallantry were awarded by the Institution in 1946, two silver and two bronze. The silver medals were won by Coxswain John Murt, of Padstow, and Robert Harland, a member of the Whitby crew, and the bronze medals by Coxswain...
Category: Medals
A stable partnership
14 September 2011: This disabled trawler had been under tow in gale-force winds by another fishing vessel for several hours, before Lochinver lifeboat was requested to stand by astern and stabilise the tow for safe entry to harbour.
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James Cuckow, of Ipswich
On the 6th March the schooner James Cuckow, of Ips- wich, went ashore on the Barnard Sand, daring a fresh gale from N.N.E. The life- boat Sisters was promptly launched to the wreck, and was fortunately the means of rescuing the whole of the...
Henrietta Greve, of Granton
This life-boat also went off on the 22nd March and rendered important services to the brig Henrietta Greve, of Granton, which, daring a fresh gale from E.N.E., had grounded in Pakefield Gatway, but which was got off and taken to port with...
Uruguay
On the 26th June the Kingsdowne Life- boat went off, in reply to signals of distress from the Light-ships on the Good- win Sands, to the steamer Uruguay, of Liverpool, which had gone on the Sands, and remained alongside the vessel until she...