LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain John Matthews, of Moelfre, Anglesey.

He has been coxswain since 1918, and previously served for three years as bowman. During the nineteen years that he has been an officer of the...

AUGUST 1993 Mrs Hilda Ford, a founder member of Margate ladies' guild in 1957 and honorary secretary for many years. She was made an honorary life governor in 1975 having previously been awarded a Gold badge in 1961..

An open day which raised £1,600 at Short ham's Lady Bee Marina attracted crowds of people who enjoyed boat trips, a lifeboat demonstration, a fashion show, a fencing display and not least Liz Naldrett's tantalising shellfish.<... - View image in PDF

Mrs Anne M. Jacobs of Gourock branch. Mrs Jacobs became branch vice-president in 1942 and was made president in 1951. She was awarded a gold badge in 1964 and was made an honorary life governor in 1977..

JANUARY 18TH. - HELVICK HEAD, CO.

WATERFORD, AND BALLYCOTTON, CO.

CORK. Flares had been reported, but the life-boats found nothing, although a Lowestoft drifter said that she had seen an aeroplane dropping...

MAY 28TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. On the instructions of the naval authorities the life-boat went to an allotted berth, ready if necessary to help in the landing of refugees from vessels which were expected, but her help was not needed. - Rewards,...

DECEMBER 23RD. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. Flares had been reported but nothing could be found, and it was thought that they had been dropped by an aeroplane. - Partly paid permanent crew.

Rewards, £4...

In three years of war the life-boat service has not gone undamaged by enemy action. Of nineteen of its life-boats which took part in the evacuation of the B.E.F. from Dunkirk in May and June, 1940, one, the Hythe boat, never returned, and...