LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The late Coxswain Daniel Kirkpatrick, of Longhope, who lost his life when the life-boat capsized on 17th March, had a few days before been told that he had been elected to receive the annual gift of £5 from the Miss Maud Smith endow-...

THE subject of Anchors is one of such vast importance to the Life-boat Service, and of so deep an interest to the whole sea-faring community, that it is felt that the able Paper, entitled "Anchors: Old Forms and Recent...

For years, students and teachers at Atlantic College have volunteered for a lifeboat crew ready to launch off the south Wales coast. But now the College has a new lifesaving focus. While the lifeboat station has now closed, students have...

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Sjng I e h anded_saNor towed to safety Along and arduous service in gale force winds, heavy seas and wintery conditions in April 1998 has earned Paul Martin, the Coxswain of Skegness lifeboat the RNLI's Thanks on...

RAMSGATE.—The Bradford Life-boat, and the harbour steam-tug Vulcan, went out at 10 P.M. on the 26th January in response to signals of distress, during a strong S.W. gale, passed through the Cudd Channel and spoke the sloop Venus, of Guernsey...

NEW BRIGHTON AND FOBMBY.—Messages by telephone were received at these Life-boat stations on the evening of the 7th March stating that a steamer had stranded and was in need of assistance.

At 6.17 the New Brighton Steam Life...

Surfer saved by inshore lifeboat in severe gale and heavy seas Helmsman Stuart Roberts of Porthcawl's D class inshore lifeboat was awarded a Silver Medal for outstanding bravery during the rescue of a surfer in very rough seas on 30...