LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverse.—Bust of His Majesty KINO EVWAKD VII. Double Legend: "Royal National Lite-boat Institution. Founded in 1824. Incorporated 1860. King Edward VII. Patron."...
Category: Medals
The RAF Flying Boat S1645
The Sandgate coast- guard reported at 1.40 A.M. on the 2nd July that a seaplane was down half a mile S.E. of the coastguard station. A S.W. breeze was blowing, with a slight sea. The motor life-boat Sir William Hillary put out and found the...
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Otnxrtc.—Bust at His Majesty KING EDWARD VII. Double Legend : " Royal National Life-boat Institution.
Founded In 1824. Incorporated 1860. King Edward VII...
Category: Medals
The Ex-Fishing Smack Quix
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 8.55 on the evening of the 3rd September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht, which he had had under observation for some time, had fired a red flare about four miles north-east of...
The Auxiliary Gaff Yawl Duet
MAINMAST SNAPS IN TALL SHIPS RACE St. Peter Port, Guernsey. On the 14th August, 1962, the 50-foot auxiliary gaff yawl Duet had been taking part in the Tall Ships Race and was about twentyfive miles off the west coast of Guernsey on the way...
The Doyen of Honorary Secretaries
A VERY pleasant ceremony took place in the Guild Hall, Exeter, on the 24th July, when Mr. Courtenay H. Edmonds, the Honorary Secretary of the Exeter Branch, and Mrs. Ferris Tozer, the Honorary ' Secretary of the Ladies' Auxiliary, re...
Category: Branches
The Minesweeper Mastiff and Spartel
NOV. 2 0 T H . - MARGATE, KENT. At 10.45 A.M. the coastguard reported that a minesweeper was sinking, as a result of enemy action, a mile east of the Tongue Light-vessel. The minesweeper was the Mastiff. Five minutes later the motor...
Three Fine Services By the Humber Life-Boat. 102 Lives Rescued In Five Weeks
IN the course of five weeks of the war, from 10th October to 14th November, 1939, the motor life-boat at the Humber was out on service ten times and rescued 102 lives. For three of these services Coxswain Robert Cross was awarded a clasp to...
Category: Services
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverse—Bust of His Majesty KING EDWARD VII. Double Legend : " Royal National Life-boat Institution.
Founded in 1824. Incorporated 1860. King Edward VII....
Category: Medals
The Rig Tender Seaforth Conqueror
Aground in a storm THE NOTORIOUS North Scroby Sands, off the Norfolk coast, near Great Yarmouth, claimed another victim on the night of November 18/19, 1986, when the rig tender Seaforth Conqueror ran aground there in a south-south-westerly...