LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Richard Evans BEM: a legendary lifeboatman It is with great sadness that theLifeboat reports the death of Richard Evans, aged 96, coxswain of Moelfre lifeboat from 1954 to 1970 and holder of two RNLl Gold Medals.

As well as...

Simon Cooke, a member of Torbay lifeboat crew, unearths an unusual explanation for an unusual service...

Lifeboat crews up and down the coast spend many hours searching for people reported missing , but not many get called...

HUMPBACK WHALE FREED
DART/SALCOMBE | 22 MARCH
RNLI crew never quite know what to expect when they’re called out – this time it was an 8m humpback whale trapped
 n fishing gear. The lifeboats helped...

ALL friends of the Life-boat cause will be gratified at the announcement that H.R.H. the DUKE or YORK, our sailor prince, who has for several years been a Vice-Patron of the Institution, has now graciously accepted the post of President of...

Other Launches on the Night of the 28th.

On the opposite side of Anglesey to Moelfre and Beaumaris. the two Holyhead Life-boats were also out for the greater part of the night, the Steam Life-boat being launched twice, the...

ABOUT 2.30 on the afternoon of the 16th of August, 1955, two boys, aged eight and eleven, who were in difficulties when swimming, began to shout for help.

They were then about 200 yards north- north-east of the Appledore...

Address at the Annual Meeting.

MR. CHAIRMAN, my Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, although this is the first time that I have spoken at your Annual Meeting, I am by no means unfamiliar with the work of the life-boat...

The Gurney Professor of History and Political Science at Harvard University, Mr. David Owen, has produced a comprehensive and thoroughly entertaining survey of charity in England and Wales—he has little to say on Scotland or Ireland—in the...