LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ON the day on which the International Life-boat display on the Thames finished, and the foreign Life-boats went down the river and out to sea, the Teesmouth Motor Life-boat started on a six weeks' cruise up the Thames. She was in charge...

THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain John Daniel, of Aberystwyth.

He joined the crew in 1911, was ap- pointed bowman in 1933, second cox- swain in 1936 and coxswain at the beginning of 1943. He retired at the end of...

Captain David Rees, of New Quay (Cardigan), who died in February, 1937, at the age of eighty-nine, wasone of the oldest of the honorary secretaries of stations. He had held that post at New Quay for forty-seven years. In recognition of his...

Calling all yachtsmen: A first-class insurance against disaster is to be well-prepared.

Experience counts above all, but a lot can be learned from good books, and there is no better list of titles on the subject than that...

morning of the 30th October information was re- ceived from the coastguard, that a barge was driving off St. Margaret's Bay in a dismasted condition, and making signals of distress. The crew of the Life-boat Civil Service No. 4 were...

Some old photos can lead charmed lives - and these were some of the lucky ones which survived by pure chance, or rather by a chain of coincidences.

How did they arrive here? Well: if you treat your dustbin men nicely they...

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