LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE portrait on the cover is of Richard Walsh, the coxswain of the Rosslare Harbour life-boat. Richard Walsh has been coxswain since December 1946.

From August 1941 to December 1946 he was second coxswain, and before...

To MRS. FABMEK, who was at one time Honorary Secretary of the Gloucester Branch, and who has helped the Institution, for 20 years, the Gold Brooch and the Record of Thanks.

To the following ladies who have worked in...

Waves stop play - and an apt destination Minehead's D class lifeboat carried out a service on 23 July which saved two people and their yacht in difficult condition, but which was somewhat overshadowed in press reports by the interruption...

THIS enterprising and interesting Insti- tution was established in 1889, its object being "the saving of life and property appertaining to ships in distress off the coasts of Japan." Its affairs are successfully managed and worked...

• Peter Mitchell's book The Wrecker's Guide to South West Devon has been written in response to the demands of the thousands of diving enthusiasts who each year travel to the West Country in search of the wrecks which litter its...

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 12.12 early on the morning of the 30th of June, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that two bathers were marooned on a sand- bank at Point Clear. The life-boat H.C.J., on temporary duty at the station, was launched at...

Selsey, Sussex - At 5.45 p.m. on 9th June, 1969, the coastguard reported that a sailing dinghy was in difficulties two miles off shore. At 5.50 the IRB was launched in a strong east north easterly wind with a corresponding sea. The tide was...

Gabvay Bay. At 4.30 on the after- noon of the 20th of October, 1960, the local medical officer asked for the life- boat to take a patient, who was in need of immediate hospital treatment, to the mainland at Rossaveel. As no other boat was...