LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Bronze medallist David Wilson, of Thornhill, Dewsbury.

West Yorkshire, plans to be in Rome next year to take part in the World Model Powerboat Championships, flush with his success in the 1987 event at Schwerin, East...

A Gallant Service off Folkestone.

ON the night of Sunday, 13th December last, a strong S.W. gale was blowing off Folkestone, with a very heavy sea and driving rain. The day had been fine, and early in the afternoon the...

Originator and principal organiser of Dublin Lifeboat Spring Sale, Mrs Penny Montague Kavanagh.

photograph by courtesy of Charles Collins.

KINLOSS, ELGINSHIRE. At 11.40 in the morning of the 27th August, 1941, it was reported to the Burghead coastguard hy the R.A.F. at Kinloss, that an aeroplane had come down in the sea two miles north of Kinloss. Three men put out from...

Fleetwood's annual lifeboat weekend was packed with many successful events which together brought in £4,000. The Mayor of Wyre (above). Councillor Maurice Davies, is seen here starting a sponsored 66-mile relav run to Morecambe... - View image in PDF

BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.—The lugger Mary, of Buckle, was taken off the beach, at about midnight on the 30th April, in order to proceed to Gluny Harbour to be fitted out for the west coast herring fishery. A whole gale suddenly sprung up from...

AMONG those associated with the life- boat service on whom honours were be- stowed in the New Year's Honours List were:— K.C.V.O.

PHILIP HAY, Esq., c.v.o., T.D., Private Secretary and Comptroller to...

ON the night of the 31st January- 1st February the sea invaded large areas of land in many parts of the east coast, when exceptionally high tides were driven higher by violent northerly winds often reaching gale force. The floods which...