LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Knife to see you? •opte in rroubte are usually pleased to see a lifeboat, but not so for a man ^B to evade the police in Heme Bay in August. Holding a knife, he cycled, onto the sea and swam out. The man, who was not training for a...

MCH. 25TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE. At 7.30 A.M. the life-boat coxswain reported that three fishing cobles were out north of the Brig. The weather was bad, with heavy snow and showers, and it was decided to keep a look-out. Later the weather...

Never off duty The crew of Lytham St Annes were on passage from Ramsey on the Isle of Man on 1 February, collecting the relief Mersey class lifeboat Margaret Jean, when they intercepted a telephone conversation between the Coastguard and a...

FEBRUARY 17TH. - SHERINGHAM, AND WELLS, NORFOLK. Three airmen had baled out of an American Liberator aeroplane which later crashed on fire. The Wells lifeboat searched in the morning but found nothing, and after a parachute had been reported...

JULY 18TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. About ten in the morning a telephone call from Pegwell convalescent home reported a yacht in difficulties in Pegwell Bay. A strong south-westerly breeze was blowing and the sea was rough. At 10.20 the motor...

UPKinsale lifeboat crew tackled their biggest casualty on 2 February when the relief B class Walters Lifeboat brought in the 35-tonne Paulona. The 12m fi shing vessel was heading for Baltimore when the engine’s temperature started to rise...

James Vaughan is the RNLI’s new Corporate Services Director, taking over from Ian Ventham who retired in August after 18 years with the charity. Promoted internally from Head of Fundraising and Communications Services, James is now...

On the 16th December, 1939, the Torbay life-boat rescued the crew of seven of the motor schooner Henrietta, of Truro.

COXSWAIN WILLIAM H. H. MOGRIDGE was awarded a clasp to his silver medal.

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