LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

To DAVID Mum, on his retirement, after serving 22 years as Coxswain, 7 years as Second Coxswain and 5 years as Bowman of the Girvan Life-boat, a Certificate of Service and a Pension.

To JOHN WM. PARKINSON, on his retirement...

son unite Clacton lifeboat crew were sorry to say goodbye to crewman and mechanic Dave Carvey as he reached the inshore lifeboat retirement age of 45.

However, there was some comfort for them in the arrival of another of... - View image in PDF

On the 15th April, at daylight, a sloop was observed to be on shore on the south end of the Goodwin Sands. As soon as there was sufficient water on the sands for a boat to cross them, the Walmer life-boat was launched, and proceeded under...

RHYL, NORTH WALKS. — At about 2 A.M.

on the 18th November, the Coastguard on duty observed a vessel in a dangerous position opposite Rhyl, tat making no signals of distress. At about 3 o'clock the vessel appeared to be...

North Sunderland, Northumberland.— At 10.50 in the morning of the 18th of June, 1949, the Seahouses coastguard telephoned that the tug Dunelm, of Newcastle, was signalling for help, and blowing her siren, half a mile east of Seahouses, and...

OCTOBER 6TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.

At eight at night the coastguard reported a vessel ashore beside the coastguard station one mile north of Peterhead.

The sea was smooth, but there were patches of...

The golden sands of The Gambia wasn’t a place where proud RNLI supporter Robert Painter expected to find lifeguards flying our flag …

'My wife and I have recently returned from The Gambia...

COXSWAIX J. A. ATKINSON died on the 17th of October, 1955, at the age of 76. He was coxswain of the Padstow no. 1 life-boat from 1929 until he retired in 1944. His earliest appoint- ment by the Institution was as mate of the tug Helen Peele...