LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Richard Evans of Moelfre. He was appointed coxswain in 1954 after serving as second coxswain from 1939 to 1954 and as bowman from 1930 to 1939. He was awarded the bronze medal for gallantry for the...

Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 12.32 on the afternoon of the 28th of March, 1959, the honorary secretary was in- formed that a boat was being blown off shore one mile east of the life- boathouse. At 12.40 the life-boat Henry Comber Brown was...

Plymouth, Devon - At 3.50 a.m. on 16th July, 1966, a converted ship's lifeboat with four men on board was stated to be overdue. The occupants had gone fishing at the ledges nine miles out. The life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse...

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 6.5 on the morning of the 19th of November, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel two miles from the Barrow Deep lightvessel was trying to attract attention. The life-boat Sir Godfrey...

PATIENT'S URGENT NEED At 2.40 p.m. on 2nd August, 1964, a local doctor told the honorary secretary that a patient urgently needed an operation at a mainland hospital. The weather was too poor for the air ambulance service to operate...

TAKEN TO ROSSAVEEL At 2.40 p.m. on 28th September, 1964, the local district nurse requested the use of the life-boat to take an injured child to Rossaveel. No other boat being available, the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her moorings...

CHILD WITH APPENDICITIS At 12.30 p.m. on I5th March, 1965, the local doctor requested the life-boat to pick up a child casualty, suffering with appendicitis, from Inishere Island. The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was launched at 2.30 in a...

After Mr. Robert Jefford, a member of the IRB crew at Lyme Regis, and Miss Estelle Butler, the youngest member of the local ladies' life-boat guild, were married at Uplyme Parish Church, Lyme Regis, on 8th October, 1967, the couple left...