LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ALL who were connected with the Lifeboat Service twenty years ago will have heard with regret of the death, on the 4th -of April, of Captain Howard Fiennes Julius Rowley, C.B.E., R.N.

He was in his eightieth year, and it...

As if they won’t face enough challenges, the RNLI’s newest crew will be keeping an eye out for monsters as the charity takes over the Coastguard rescue station on Loch Ness.

At the time of writing, a trial was about to...

Belgian sloop aground LYMINGTON ILB STATION deputy launching authority received a telephone message at 2035 on Friday, November11, 1977, from HM Coastguard Needles saying that the 42' Belgian sloop Colombe had called on her RT to say...

Two calls ON THE MORNING of Friday August 13, 1982, a message came at 1148 from Thames Coastguard informing Aideburgh lifeboat station of a fishing vessel, Cachalot, which had broken down; she was anchored between Orfordness and Weir Point...

by Dave Trotter The new Mersey class 12-002, to be named Sealink Endeavour, makes her public debut at a special press day at Hastings during July. She is to be stationed at Hastings once operational trials are... - View image in PDF

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DURING April, May, June and July the following awards were made to Honorary Secretaries of Branches, and to other honorary workers in recogni- tion of their services in the cause of the Institution:— To Mr. S. J. R. LEGEHTON, on his...

Richard Wakeley, aged 12, Perm Cottage, Nore Road, Portishead, near Bristol, produces The Nore Review which he writes and illustrates, distributing carbon copies on foolscap paper to readers.

In December he wrote to Cdr....