LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Psyche
On Sunday, the 14th August, the yacht Psyche, of Dublin, drove ashore near the Flash Light, on the north bank of the Liffey, during a heavy squall in a westerly gale, and as the position of tho occupants was OIK; of great danger the...
Captain W. R. Graham, of Cemaes, Anglesey
Captain W. R. Graham, of Cemaes, who died last February, had been Honorary Secretary of the Cemaes Bay District since 1921. Before that he had been the Honorary Treasurer for many years. He was an enthusiastic worker, organizing several...
Category: Obituaries
Mr. Edward Cochran, J.P., Paisley
The Paisley branch has suffered a severe loss by the death, in his eighty- eighth year, of its honorary secretary and treasurer, Mr. Edward Cochran, J.P. He had held that post for twenty- four years, and in 1922 was awarded the life-boat...
Category: Obituaries
A Rowing Boat
22nd April. Two boys, brothers, went into the sea from a rowing boat to recover their lost paddles, but one got into difficulties, and while his brother was trying to help him their boat drifted away. Be- fore the life-boat could reach them...
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On the 21st October the motor life-boat The Rankin took a surgeon and a nurse to Papa Stour, where a man was seriously ill, and an immediate operation was necessary if his life was to be saved.—The Depart- ment of Health for Scotland paid...
The Bravest Deed of 1948
THE "Miss Maud Smith's reward for courage, in memory of John, 7th Earl of Hardwicke," for the bravest deed of the year has. been awarded to Coxswain Frederick Upton, of Walmer, for the rescue of thirty lives from the Italian...
Category: Awards
Ministry Award for Best Service
MR. HAROLD WATKINSON, Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, has awarded the shield for the best wreck service of 1955 carried out by coast life-saving companies to be held by the companies of Gardenstowii and Banff jointly. The award...
Category: Awards
Royal Humane Society Award
COXSWAIN Lionel Derek Scott and Motor Mechanic Robert Gammon of the Mumbles have each been awarded the Royal Humane Society's testi- monial on vellum for the rescue of two school teachers whose dinghy capsized on the 16th of June, 1959...
Category: Awards
I Doubt Whether There Exists In This Country a Finer Collection of Men and Women Nor a Better Living Example of the Spirit of Voluntary Service Throughout the World'
From a painting by Michael Turner which appeared with Paul Pickering's and Donald McLachlan's article 'For Those In Peril On the Sea' in Reader's Digest for February, 1972. The incident occurred in 1966 when the Holyhead... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Six Men Were Rescued By Breeches Buoy from the Dutch Coaster
Six men were rescued by breeches buoy from the Dutch coaster Jan Brons which ran aground on Ardnamult Head in south-westerly gales on March I I , 1964. Stephen Whittle, then second coxswain, and Assistant Mechanic John Power volunteered to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs