LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Sails blown out RED FLARES SIGHTED in the vicinity of Les Hanois Lighthouse were reported to the honorary secretary of St Peter Port lifeboat station at 2215 on Friday, November 11, 1977. A quarter of an hour later the 52ft Arun lifeboat Sir...

Launches 64 Lives rescued 28

JULY 2ND. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE.

While bound from Montreal for Glasgow with a general cargo the Liverpool steamer Dorelian, of over 6,000 tons, stranded in dense fog on...

First season success Glorious sunshine brought many to Croyde and Woolacombe beaches, North Devon, on 11 June 2006, but high surf and strong rip currents combined to make a busy day for RNLI lifeguards. They used their rescue watercraft to...

DECEMBER 25TH. - STORNOWAY, ISLAND OF LEWIS. At nine in the morning the coastguard reported that an SOS had been received from a vessel ashore on Fladdachuain Island off the north of Skye, but that another vessel was standing by. A...

On 10th February, at 2.45 in the afternoon, when a whole gale from the S.E.

was blowing with a heavy sea, it was reported at Stromness that the S. S Cormorant, of Kirkwall, was in distress in Eynhallow Sound. The Motor...

One George Medal, to COXSWAIN ROBERT CROSS, of The Humber.

Two Distinguished Service Medals to COXSWAIN HOWARD PRIMROSE COOPER KNIGHT, of Ramsgate, and COXSWAIN EDWARD DRAKE PARKER, of Margate (1940).

Four...

Miss T. H. Ashe has been appointed district organizing secretary for Wales, and Wing-Commander E. J. Brooks, D.F.C., district organizing secretary for the Midlands.

Miss Ashe succeeds Lieut.-Colonel V. M. Lewis, M.C., who...

It is with deep regret that we record the following deaths: November 1982 Mr G. T. Paine, MBE, president of Dungeness station branch, after serving as chairman from 1931 to 1982. Mr Paine was awarded the gold badge in 1963, a bar to his gold...