LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Coventry businessman Harold Smart's beard has been a double fund raiser for the Institution.

First of all he grew it, under the sponsorship of members of Coventry Rotary Club, during a three-week voyage from Lymington... - View image in PDF

A close shave! Councillor Alun Roberts surrendered his 22-year-old beard in aid of the RNLl and raised £244 for the Penarth branch. He is seen being shaved bv hairdresser Alan Jones. Among the witnesses were deputy launching authority... - View image in PDF

Boarding boat rescue from saltings REQUESTING THE LAUNCHING of Calshot lifeboat at 2207 on Thursday, January 29, HM Coastguard told the honorary secretary that at 2054 a red flare had been reported in Ashlett Creek and. in view of the very...

Rhyl couple tie the knot

Congratulations to Coastguard volunteer Andrea and RNLI volunteer Andy, who brought a whole new level of inter-agency cooperation to the shores of Rhyl when they got married in June. Andrea...

Arklow, Co. W'icklow.—About three o'clock on the afternoon of the 1st of March, 1953, four boys walking on the beach near Arklow Rock heard shouts through dense fog from a vessel ashore.

The vessel was asking for a...

In very wet and cold weather the Life-boat James Stevens No. 6 was engaged during the whole of the 18th March in assisting to save a vessel which had run on to a reef of rocks under Beachy Head. At 7.30 A.M. the vessel was sighted, and...

At ro.20 a.m. on nth March, 1967, news was received that two canoes had capsized off Swanage pier and that two men were in the water. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched at 10.25 m a south south westerly gale and a choppy sea. It was high...

From the Men of the Fleet.

A gift of £1,900 has been received from the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes. This is a part of the profit made by the Naval Canteen trading during the past year, and it has been given to...