LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Dear Editor I had loads of fun taking photos of Paddington while on holiday in Italy – although others on the beach thought me a little ‘eccentric’ to say the least. Best regards Mick Parker Competition Winner. - View image in PDF

IN making its appeals for public support, the Institution has decided to divide into two Districts the North of England, which up to the end of last year was one District, and which had as its Organizing Secretary the late Mr. Edgar H....

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SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT ANGLE DECEMBER 18TH. - ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE.

A gale was blowing from the south-west and a very rough sea was running. In the early evening a small Dutch ship, the motor vessel Thor, of Rotterdam,...

SINCE the Mayor of St. Ives's fund for the dependents of the life-boatmen who lost their lives when the life-boat was wrecked on 23rd January last, was closed at the sum of £10,500, a gift of £1,670 9s. 7d. has come from South...

Coxswain Samuel Cunningham, who died at his home at the age of 54 on 3rd June, 1964, had a dual role which was unique in Ulster. He was former coxswain of the Portrush life-boat and was also town clerk of Portrush.

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Coxswain George Leith, of the Lerwick, Shetland, lifeboat, who helped to rescue the crew of nine of the trawler Granton Osprey on December 13, 1972, is this year's recipient of the £5 'The Maud Smith Award for courage, in memory...

Peter MacDonald Fulton Peter Fulton passed away after a long illness on 6 March 2003, aged 76. Peter, a trainer for ICI and the RNR, created structured training for lifeboat crew vital at a time when recruits increasingly came from non-seafaring...