LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

June John Ardus, Hoylake lifeboat station honorary secretary between 1985 and 1997. John was deputy launching authority at Hoylake between 1983 and 1985 and was awarded binoculars in 1995..

Appledore, Devon. At 4.18 on the afternoon of the 19th of July, 1959, the coastguard told the second coxswain that two boys were on a sandbank on the river Taw after being cut off by the tide. The life-boat Violet Armstrong left her moorings...

On the 25th of December, 1956, the Exmouth and Torbay life-boats put out to the Dutch motor vessel Minerva. In the course of the service William Carder, a member of the Exmouth crew, was washed overboard and lost his life. For a full account...

Moelfre, Anglesey.—During a whole S.S.W. gale, with a very heavy sea, the motor life-boat G.W. was launched at 11.30 P.M. on the 13th December to the help of the schooner Alert, of Falmouth, which had lost some of her sails and one of her...

ON August 16th, a Centenary Demon- stration was to be held at Whitby, the Motor Life-boat and one of the Pulling and Sailing Life-boats to be launched, and an exhibition of Life-boat models to be held in the Life-boat House, but it was...

MAY 30TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 4.45 A.M. a message was received from the Deal coastguard that a vessel with dead and wounded men on board had arrived in the Downs and that a doctor was wanted. A light northerly breeze was blowing and the sea...

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By OSMOND PATTISON HANDFORD ROBB (14), Royal High School, Edinburgh.

Imagine that You have been Shipwrecked, and Rescued by a Life-boat. Describe Your Experiences.

THE sea was turbulent; a thick fog...