LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Barra Island, Outer Hebrides - At 7 p.m. on 26th March, 1966, the honorary secretary was asked by a local doctor if the life-boat could be used to convey an injured patient to South Uist for hospital treatment as no other suitable boat was...

FISHGUARD.—On the 15th of September this place was visited by a very strong gale from the N.N.E., accompanied by a heavy sea. The smack Catherine, of Cardigan, bound thence to Swansea, in ballast, and the brigantine Osnabrick, of Papenberg,...

ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At 6.30 in the evening of the 3rd of March, 1946, the police reported that two boys were cut off by thetide on the rocks at Lee. A strong northerly breeze was blowing and raising a rough sea.

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Mr D. K. Redford, who is a member of the Committee of Management, was awarded the CBE in the New Year Honours List.

* * * After double gold medallist Dick Evans, ex coxswain of Moelfre lifeboat, took part in the BBC...

How came the might of England ? Not by the tongue or pen; Deeply it grew as a flower in the hearts of its bravest men.

And it scattered the seeds of heroes along the storm-swept shore, That they might work for glory,...

Dover, Kent.—At 12.48 on the after- noon of the 8th of July, 1956, the Sandgate coastguard reported that two ships had been in collision five miles south-east of South Foreland in thick fog. The life-boat Southern Africa put out at 1.10. The...

The naming and blessing of Manchester and District No 32, the new Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat to be stationed at Appledore. The ceremony took place on Friday February 7, 1986, in Manchester and the photograph shows (I) Mr Tom Booth... - View image in PDF

Beach Rescue lifeguard Robin H0well. - View image in PDF