LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Trapped on cliff FOLLOWING A 999 CALL, HM Coastguard informed Coxswain Griffith Jones of Porthdinllaen lifeboat station at 2253 on Tuesday, August 31, 1976, that a boy was trapped under a rock at Porth-y- Nant. The coxswain informed his...
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BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT ST. DAVID’S FEBRUARY 28TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE. At 9.20 in the evening the police telephoned to the life-boat station that a man was trapped somewhere up the cliffs near Llanunwas, Solva. The honorary...
Your Letters
Coxswain's Thank-you Having been persuaded to be involved in the RNLI Christmas Appeal letter, I was overwhelmed with the amazing response - which resulted in donations totalling £400,000.
Several hundred...
Category: Correspondence
Death of the Right Hon. Sir Stephen Cave, G.C.B.
WE lament to announce the death of the Right Hon. Sir Stephen Cave, P.O., G.C.B., Paymaster-General and Judge Advocate- General in the late Government, and member for Shoreham from 1859 until the late general election. For some years Sir...
Category: Obituaries
The S.S. Flying Enterprise
The Lizard, Cadgwith, and Falmouth, Cornwall.—The S.S. Flying Enterprise, of New York, had been drifting help- lessly in the Atlantic Ocean for over a week, with only her captain on board.
She was listing very heavily. On...
Past and Present
100 years ago One hundred years ago THE LIFEBOAT was also looking back - another 50 years to what it termed: A Noteworthy Jubilee from THE LIFEBOAT of 1893 Fifty years ago, Le. on the 20th October, 1842 there was laid to rest in her early...
Category: Articles
Obituaries
IT is with deep regret that we record the following deaths: December, 1985 Coxswain William Crowley, who joined the Fenit, Co Kerry, lifeboat crew in 1928. He was bowman from 1936 to 1938, second coxswain from 1938 to 1942 and from 1945 to...
Category: Obituaries
Key Retirement Solutions
I enjoy a more prosperous retirement EX-SERVICE MAN MAKES THE MOST OF HIS RETIREMENT YEARS WITH AN EQUITY RELEASE SCHEME Flying for the first time into the airfield he had helped to build whilst serving in Burma during the Second World War,...
Category: Advertisement
Courage and loss
When a well-known Scarborough man ended up in the dark surf last Winter, the community did everything they could to help him -and his memory- live on
In the early evening of Sunday 22 February,...
Category: Articles
News
Your guide to what's been going on in the world of the RNLI
NEW LIFEGUARD AND SWIM SAFE LOCATIONS FOR A SAFER SUMMER
RNLI lifeguards will patrol eight new beaches this summer, including Camber Sands....
Category: Articles