LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

In December Sally Jane, the third child of Mr. Anthony Warnock, the mechanic of the Seaham life-boat, and Mrs. Kathleen Warnock, was baptised aboard the local life-boat.

With Coxswain Arthur Farrington at the wheel, Mr....

Early this year at a private ceremony held at Longhope, Orkney, posthumous awards for gallantry were presented by The Duke of Atholl, Convenor of the Scottish Life-boat Council, and a member of the Committee of Management of the Royal...

Surely the oldest ladies' guild member must be Miss Violet Oswald. One of thebest loved members of Dunoon and District guild, she reached the age of 103 on October 12, 1974. At the annual general meeting at Dunoon last year she was...

The Royal Humane Society awarded a testimonial on parchment, combined with a resuscitation certificate, to Police Sergeant Stephen Ferguson of the County Borough of Hastings Police, and a resuscitation certificate to Motor Mechanic John...

NEW YEAR HONOURS Knights Bachelor Captain David Stanley Tibbits, DSC RN (Retd.), Deputy Master, Trinity House. Sir David is an exofficio member of the RNLI Committee of Management.

QBE Rodney Murison Addison, Vice- Chairman...

Skegness: A Balcar 105 helicopter was seen to crash into the sea, five miles east south east of Skegness, on the afternoon of Tuesday July 24, 1984. At 1306 Skegness's 15ft 6in D class inflatable lifeboat launched from the beach manned...

French yachtsmen saved SECOND COXSWAIN Peter Bisson was in command when St Peter Port's 52ft Arun class lifeboat, Sir William Arnold, slipped her moorings at 0950 on the morning of Sunday August 11, 1985. A report had been received from...

Thirteen Medals for Gallantry RHOSNEIGIR, ANGLESEY On the 28th August, 1941, determined efforts were made to rescue the crew of a British aeroplane which had crashed in the sea.

MR. DERRICK H. BAYNHAM was awarded the silver...