LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Crew member leaps aboard casualty from C class inflatable Helmsman Peter Heading and Crew Member Robert Gorman of Aberystwyth lifeboat station have been awarded the RNLI's Bronze medal for Gallantry following the rescue of a lone...

Glacton-on-Sea and Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.51 on the evening of the 27th of September, 1956, the Clacton coastguard telephoned that a vessel was in need of help off no. 11 Barrow buoy. At 9.10 the Clacton life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring...

The launch was one of their toughest – what would the lifeboat volunteers find when they reached the casualty, dragging in the water?

It was a bright and breezy morning on
4 September 2009 when a man and...

IN " Abstract of an Investigation into Asphyxia," just published and presented to the Royal Humane Society .by Dr. MAE- SHALL HALL, opens quite a new view of the way in which suffocation from drowning or other causes should be...

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 2.55 A.M.

on the 25th August, 1938, the harbourmaster reported rockets near Black Rock Buoy in the Solent. The night was fine and the sea smooth. The motor life-boat S.G.E. put out at 3.17 A.M.,...

Weymouth, Dorset.—At 5.3 on the afternoon of the 24th of August, 1957, the Wyke Regis coastguard reported that the yacht Tarifa was in diffi- culties some three miles south of Portland Bill. The life-boat William and Clara Ryland put out at...

Dover, Kent. At 12.55 early on the morning of the 25th of May, 1958, the eastern arm signal station informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was firing red flares off South Foreland. At 1.10 the life-boat Elizabeth Elson, on temporary...

Mr. Michael Tosh has become the first man to receive the Institution's award for the best factual newspaper account of a service by a life-boat. His report appeared in the Dundee Courier and Advertiser on nth November, 1964. In it he...