LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Fishing boat capsized A TELEPHONE CALL was received by the honorary secretary of Penarth lifeboat station at 1311 on Friday September 18, 1981, from The Mumbles Coastguard requesting the launch of the lifeboat: a message had come on VHP...

Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.—At 10.45 on the night of the 7th of April, 1953, a wireless message was received stating that a passenger in the S.S. Cor- rientes, of Glasgow, was seriously ill with a perforated stomach ulcer andasking if the...

THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving in 1957 has been won by Mr. William Morris, the motor mechanic of the Barmouth life-boat.

He wins the award for the rescue in his own motor launch of four swimmers who...

LADY CRATHORNE named the new Teesmouth life-boat Sarah Jane and James Season at a ceremony at the life-boat house on the 28th of May, 1960. The life-boat, which is one of the 47-feet Watson type, was pro- vided out of legacies from the late...

Rough conditions for Brighton's Atlantic Ashort but difficult service by Brighton's Atlantic 75 last December has earned two of her crew the Institution's Thanks on Vellum. Prompt action, good seamanship, a brave swim in rough...

Hythe, Kent.—18th August, 1939.

It had been reported that a canoe was being carried away by the wind and tide, but the life-boat could find nothing, and it was learnt later that the canoe had come safely ashore.— Rewards,...

Margate, Kent.—16th September, 1939. A vessel had been reported with a bad list, which was thought to be the result of enemy action, and the lifeboat put out in charge of the bowman, as both the coxswain and second coxswain were at sea...

Dover and Dungeness, Kent.—9th May. A French air liner was reported several hours overdue and a prolonged search was made, but, unfortunately, without result. The liner was the F—A M P H and was lost with all the six people on board.—Rewards...