LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 12.50early on the morning of the 21st of February, 1955, the Medical Officer of Health for Shetland asked if the life-boat would fetch a man from Tingwall, who was suffering from acute appendicitis, as the roads were...

St. David's, Pembrokeshire - At 8.40 p.m. on loth July, 1967, a message was received that a sailing dinghy fromForth isle appeared to be in difficulties.

The life-boat Joseph Soar (Civil Service No. 34) was launched at...

ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.—About 8 A.M.

on the 27th February a telephone message was received stating that a steamer was blowing a succession of short blasts from a foghorn and immediately afterwards another message an-ived...

THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Richard H. Hayes, of Poole, Dorset. He has been coxswain for the past seven years..

BY the death of Mr. William Cole, of Ilfracombe, at the age of seventy-five, in April of this year, the Institution lost a warm friend and worker and one of its oldest Honorary Secretaries. He was appointed in 1890 and held the position...

With Summer around the corner, it may prove difficult to remember the frozen winter months, and as usual, the hardest hit by snow were Scotland and the North.

Sea transport showed its advantages in these conditions as RNLI...

Muddy waters Weston-super-Mare's D class Faith rescued two tourists who had ventured onto the area's notorious mud with an incoming tide on 11 July. The couple from Bristol got into trouble after one of them injured an arm, soon...

JANUARY 1993 Edgar Moore, coxswain of Newhaven lifeboat from 1962 to 1977. He joined the crew in 1945, was bowman from 1946 to 1954 and then served as second coxswain until his appointment as coxswain in 1962..