LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Conditions at the limit of D class capabilities Matthew Rossi of Port Talbot lifeboat has received a framed letter of thanks from RNLI Chairman David Acland for his seamanship and leadership skills following the rescue of a man from the sea...

Awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Humane Society for the bravest deed of the year. WHEN the trawler Sarepta of Lowestoft was returning from the fishing grounds on October 31st last, in heavy, squally and very cold weather, with a heavy sea...

When four friends went diving in Liverpool Bay last November they checked the weather and had all the right equipment, but a change in the weather, a faulty VHP radio and a marker buoy which didn't behave as it should conspired to put...

Marginal conditions ^J for D class rescue On Easter Sunday morning last year Mablethorpe's D class inshore lifeboat saved two fishermen in conditions which were on the absolute limits for the class. The successful service earned her...

Thursday, 21st June, 1928.

SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.

Passed a special Vote of Thanks to H.R.H.

PRINCE GEORGE for graciously visiting the Orkney Islands in order to perform...

JULY 16TH. - ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE.

At 11.10 in the morning the Tenby coastguard telephoned that the naval authorities at Milford Haven had reported a vessel ashore on Grassholm Island and in need of help. It had been...

WINTERTON.—The No.' 2 Life-boat Husland was launched at 11 o'clock on the night of the 4th October, in response to signals of distress shown by the brig Catherine, of Whitby, bound from Portsmouth for Sunderland, which -was...

Charles H. Barrett, M.B.E., hono- rary secretary and treasurer of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, died on the 26th of August, 1954, at the age of 74. His successor, Mr. C. J.

Quinton, M.B.E., writes: "Since 1938...