LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
On Their Bikes
Port Isaac crew members Richard Hambly and Greg Hingley raised £528 by cycling over 250 miles round Cornwall, visiting every Cornish lifeboat station.
The seven-day trek started at Bude and Richard and Greg were... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Britannia
26th April. The local fishing boat Britannia put out on the morning of the 25th April, but did not return when expected, and some anxiety was felt. Soon after 11 P.M.
the honorary secretary asked the coast- guard to signal...
Cap Lizard
Torbay, Devon. At 1.20 a.m. on 2ist December, 1965, the coastguard reported that a red rocket had been seen in a position five to six miles off Dartmouth in the area of Start Bay.
The life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent...
A Yacht From Dungarvan
JUNE 16TH. - HELVICK HEAD, CO.
WATERFORD. At three in the afternoon a man reported to the honorary secretary that a yacht from Dungarvan was at anchor about a mile and a half east of Helvick Head. A very strong...
H.M. Drifter Gowan
FEBRUARY 6TH. - BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. At 5.25 A.M. the coastguard at Carnoustie telephoned that distress flares had been seen between Horseshoe and Lady Buoys, and the motor life-boat Mona was launched at 6 A.M. A westerly gale was blowing,...
The photograph at the top of the page shows ex-Coxswain Richard Evans, of Moelfre, Anglesey, the holder of two gold medals, and ex-Mechanic/Second Coxswain Evan Owen, also of the Moelfre boat, stepping ashore
The photograph at the top of the page shows ex-Coxswain Richard Evans, of Moelfre, Anglesey, the holder of two gold medals, and ex-Mechanic/Second Coxswain Evan Owen, also of the Moelfre boat, stepping ashore at Tower Pier for the reception... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sir Richard Hopkins
SIR RICHARD V. N. HOPKINS, P.C., G.C.B., Permanent Secretary to the Treasury from 1942 to 1945, who died on the 30th of March, 1955, at the age of 75, had been a member of the Com- mittee of Management and Chairman of the Civil Service...
Category: Obituaries
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FATAL CLIFF FALL At 2.20 p.m. on ist March, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary of a police report that a man had fallen over the cliff between The Needles and Freshwater Bay. The life-boat The Earl and Countess Howe left at...
The Admiralty Trawlers Pyrope and Tamarisk
AUGUST 12TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 11 A.M. the life-boat crew were at the Town Hall, where a picture of the evacuation of the B.E.F. from Dunkirk was being presented to them, when an an-raid alarm was sounded.
The crew made...
Looking Back By Lt Commander Harold H Harvey Vrd Rnr
WHEN I TOOK my leave of the lifeboat service on December 31, 1973, it was after 21J years service as divisional inspector and superintendent of the Depot. At the age of 32 years I was serving as a lieutenant on the teaching staff of the...
Category: Articles