LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
(Right) Mrs Henrietta Sittett was at her usual post,
(Right) Mrs Henrietta Sittett was at her usual post, outside Botchins the butchers in St John's Wood; now 80 years old, she has collected regularly since I960 and this year she brought in £26.49 in spile of biting winds. But... - View image in PDF
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The American Liberty Vessel No.572 (1)
SEPTEMBER 13TH. - DUNBAR, EAST LOTHIAN, AND ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE.
The American liberty vessel No.
572 had stranded, but a fishing boat stood by her and she refloated. - Rewards : Dunbar, £4 7s. 6d...
List of the Rewards Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, From the 1st January to the 31st December, 1862
Jan. 2.—Voted the Silver Medal of the Institution and 51. to Mr. THOMAS ADAMS, the master of the smack Volunteer, of Harwich. Also the Silver Medal and 21. to each of the 5 men who went off in the smack's boat to the wreck; and the...
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The American Steamer Bessemer City, of New York
St. Ives, Cornwall.—At midnight on the lst-2nd November the coastguard reported a vessel ashore west of St.
Ives. She was the American steamer Bessemer City, of New York, bound from Liverpool for London with a general cargo...
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
THE beautiful obverse of this medal, executed by the late L. C. WYOIT, Esq., represents the bust of QUEEN VICTORIA, Her Majesty's locks gracefully waving and gathered in a...
Category: Medals
St.Davids
ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE On the 28th February, 1943, the St. David’s life-boat rescued a man trapped on the cliff at Llanunwas, near Solva.
DR. JOSEPH SOAR, Mus. Doc., honorary secretary, was awarded the bronze medal.<...
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Media Interest After the Arrival of the Medallists at the Festival Pier Aboard the Relief Mersey Her Majesty the Queen- Mark Paterson Interviewed
Media interest after the arrival of the medallists at the Festival Pier aboard the relief Mersey Her Majesty The Queen- Mark Paterson interviewed all four medallists for BBC local television and is seen here talking to Barry Bennett of St... - View image in PDF
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Tempora Mutantur Et Nos Mutamur In Illis
THE almost total disappearance of the old-fashioned small sailing coaster, the place of which baa been taken by steamers, coupled with the vastly improved con- ditions under which the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland are lighted, has...
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A Vessel
Port St. Mary, and Port Erin, Isle of Man.—30th January. Following a report that the lights of a vessel under observation had disappeared, a search was made, but nothing could be found.
—Rewards : Port St. Mary, £33 5s...