LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ANNUAL AWARDS 1979 The Maud Smith Award for the most outstanding act of lifesaving by a lifeboatman during 1979 has been made to Superintendent Coxswain Brian Bevan for the rescue of the crew of four of the Panamanian cargo vessel Revi in a...

Capsized inflatable THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Porthdinllaen lifeboat station was informed by HM Coastguard at 1522 on Saturday April 25, 1981, that an inflatable dinghy had capsized in Porthdinllaen Bay, throwing two people into the water....

GREAT CRYSTIC BOATS! Crystic polyester resin is being specified for the GRP hulls of workboats all over the world because it has proved itself over many years for strong rugged marine structures.

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COXSWAIN Daniel Kirkpatrick of Longhope has achieved the unusual distinction of being awarded the Institution's silver medal for gallantry for the second time. His second award was made for the rescue of nine men from the Aberdeen...

The first of the new 52-foot glass reinforced plastic life-boats to be built from the latest 52-foot prototype fast afloat boat (see pictures page 109) designed by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution is to be paid for by voluntary...

Lowestoft, Suffolk. — 23rd November, 1938. A barge was driving before the gale, but she got out of danger and went on her way. Another barge had been reported in distress near Gorleston, but it was learned from the St. Nicholas Light-vessel...

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AT twenty minutes past eleven on the night of the 27th of September, 1951— a very dark night with heavy rain squalls—the coxswain of the Dover life-boat, when on his way along the Eastern Harbour Arm, on private busi- ness to the signal...