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Award for Senior Aircraftman

Date: March 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 387

ABOUT 8.45 on the morning of the 29th of September, 1958, a Royal Air Force 60-feet pinnace left Falmouth harbour for a trial run in rough seas.

She had a crew of five and Corporal N. L. Dyer was in...

Category: Awards

Membership News

Date: Summer 1995

Volume: 54

Issue: 533

AGM and Open Days Firstly, thanks to all governors who attended the AGM in May and particularly those who visited the membership stand.

Many of those attending the AGM and the annual presentation of awards during the...

Category: Articles

STEPHEN WYNNE

Date: 2016

Volume: 61

Issue: 616 Lifeboat Magazine Summer 2016

LIFEBOAT OPERATIONS MANAGER | DUN LAOGHAIRE
I was picked up by a lifeboat in 1970 when I was 12 and I joined the crew in 1975, so that’s about 40 years. I try to attend most shouts. It’s important to be there when the lads get... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Cover Picture

Date: Spring 1994

Volume: 53

Issue: 528

COVER PICTURE by Maggie Murray The four Bronze Medallists arrive at the Festival Pier before the Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards. Full details in the report on page 194 in this issue.

Next Issue: The... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

This Magnificent Photograph of the Old Folkestone Lifeboat

Date: Autumn 1986

Volume: 50

Issue: 498

This magnificent photograph of the old Folkestone lifeboat, J.

McConnell Hussey, was found by Mrs Joan Hopkinson who kindly donated it to the local branch who in turn gave it to Geoff Cosford, proprietor of the Lifeboat Inn... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

A Rescue from a Fort In the Mersey

Date: December 1947

Volume: 32

Issue: 344

ON the afternoon of the 22nd of September, a south-westerly gale was blowing in the mouth of the Mersey with rain squalls and breaking seas twenty feet high. In those heavy seas the military authorities were afraid for the safety of -one of...

Category: Services

Prize Winning Essay

Date: March 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 375

A competition open to secondary schoolboys and schoolgirls under the age of sixteen for an essay on the subject of the Life-boat Service was held again last year.

The subject set was: "Why does our country need a...

Category: Articles

Gudveig of Oslo (2)

Date: June 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 396

Caister, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk; and Lowestoft, Suf- folk. At 4.59 on the morning of the 24th of February, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the Gorleston station that the motor vessel Gudveig of Oslo...

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Date: Autumn 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 538

Atlantic's engines swamped as she tries to rescue trapped lifeguard Conditions were so bad on the East Coast of Britain on 29 August that Cullercoats' Atlantic 21 was involved in a medal-winning service within the confines of the...

River Spectacle

Date: April 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 360

As part of the Festival of Britain the Daily Mirror arranged a river spectacle on the Chelsea Reach of the Thames, alongside the Fun Fair in Battersea Park on the afternoon of the 18th of August, 1951. It included races for motor boats, and...

Category: Articles