The EDWARD AND MAISIE LEWIS award was presented to Lieutenant NA King and crew of Helicopter ‘Rescue 701’ of 819 Naval Air Squadron, Prestwick for the rescue of the crew of the fishing vessel Poseidon taking in water North of Skye on 9 November 1982. At 0923 on 9 November 1,982, a request for assistance […]
Read More The Society’s Silver Medal was award to skipper Henry Saffrey of the steamship Queenstown of Grimsby for saving the crew of the Norwegian barque, St Joseph, on 9th October 1905. Also medals to JD Farman and Thomas Tovey who manned the rescue boat. On October 9 the st Queenstown, of Grimsby, saved the crew of […]
Read More In the case of the FV Sweet Home, of Whitehills, for the rescue of the Master and five others composing the crew of the FV Comet, of Nairn, while clinging to the bottom of their capsized boat, in a heavy sea after violent squall, off Kinnaird Head, on July 24 1883. To the Master of […]
Read More The Committee have decided to recognise, by the award of the Society’s Silver Medal, the exceptional bravery displayed by Junior Ordinary Seaman Victor Derek Brockman, of the tug Lady Brassey, although aged only sixteen years, when the Empire Lough, carrying a cargo of cased petrol, was set on fire on the 24th July 1944, by […]
Read More To Captain Glenn Wostenholme of the Maersk Kendal. Shortly after midnight on 7th August 2007 the MV Pailin Maritime, a 30 year old, 3,000 ton vessel, fully laden with a cargo of logs and a crew of 24 en route from the Solomon Islands to Vietnam sent out a distress call. Her hull had cracked; […]
Read More Society Silver Medal awarded to Frederick Adams of the smack ‘Primrose’ for the rescue of crew of the Danish steamer Copenhagen on 6 December 1885. In the case of the smack Primrose, for saving, in the smack’s boat, on December 6, during a westerly gale, with heavy sea, near Horn Reef, in the North Sea, 14 […]
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SS Allie (1899 – 1917) The merchant British steamer SS Allie was built in 1899 by Harkess W. & Sons Ltd., Middlesbrough.
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SS Wragby (1901 – 1917) SS Wragby was built in 1901 by Ropner & Son, Stockton and owned by Sir R. Ropner & Co. Ltd., West Hartlepool at the time of her loss.
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SS Carlyle (1901-1917) SS Carlyle was a British steamer weighting 466 tonnes. She was built by Selby Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Selby in 1901 and owned at the time of her loss by Straits Steamship Co. Ltd., Liverpool.
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RMS Ivernia (1900 – 1917) The merchant SS Ivernia was built in 1900 and commissioned as an auxiliary transport vessel. She was torpedoed and sunk 58 miles of Cape Matapan on 1 January 1917 when on her way to Alexandria.
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