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Cut Off By the Tide. Two Bronze Medals for Clovelly Life-Boatmen

Date: April 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 349

ON the evening of the 30th of August, 1948, two young Americans were swimming and wading round Baggy Point in North Devon. One of them was the son of Mr. Negley Farson, the author, the other was a photographer on the staff of the American...

Category: Services

Svea

Date: Spring 1976

Volume: 44

Issue: 456

Night service for ILB WATCHET COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Minehead ILB station at 2325 on Saturday, September 13, 1975, that a flashing light, thought to be an SOS signal from a vessel in distress, had been sighted off...

Living on the edge

Date: Winter 2008

Volume: 61

Issue: 586

Our coastlines may appear as fi rm lines on a map but they are constantly changing. A European Commission report in 2004 stated that over 17% of the UK and nearly 20% of the RoI coastline is eroding, challenging the very existence of some...

Category: Articles

Farthings

Date: June 1934

Volume: 29

Issue: 318

As a result of the statement in the Institution's appeals in 1933 that the £250,000 a year which it needed was equivalent to five farthings per head of the population of the British Isles, not only has it received a good many in-...

Category: Donations

Ziryanian, of Odessa

Date: December 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 332

Newhaven, Sussex.—2nd July. The Russian steamer Ziryanian, of Odessa, had collided with another steamer, but both were able to go on their way.— Rewards, £7 11s. 6d..

A Small Boat

Date: November 1933

Volume: 29

Issue: 316

27th July.

Three men were in difficulties in a small boat, but were picked up by a coble.—Rewards, £10 18s..

A Small Yacht (1)

Date: December 1936

Volume: 30

Issue: 328

Hastings, Sussex.—16th July. A small yacht had stranded, but her crew were rescued by the coastguard rocket life - saving apparatus. — Rewards, £14 6s. Qd..

The French Motor Ketch Ster Vras

Date: October 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 339

Penlee, Cornwall.—6th July, 1939.

Flares had been reported and the French motor ketch Ster Vras was found, but she did not need help.— Rewards, £14 15s..

None (3)

Date: December 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 340

Hoylake, Cheshire.—30th July, 1939.

A red flare had been reported by a fisherman, but the life-boat could find nothing.—Rewards, £15 14*. 6d..

Lifeboatman Honoured In Holiday Tragedy

Date: Autumn 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 558

Skegness crew member Andrew Parker has been awarded a Royal Humane Society Vellum for the rescue of two boys at Ingoldmells Point, near Skegness, on 31 July.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs