LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

YEARS OF THEIR LIVES - CORRECTION

Many thanks to reader Mark Harvey who contacted us about the main image for the Years of Their Lives feature in the last edition. According to our archive...

TOW LASTED 13 HOURS AT 8.10 a.m. on 11 March, 1972, the St. Mary's, Scilly Isles, life-boat station learnt that the yacht Moronel had requested assistance 13 miles from Bishop Rock. The maroons were fired at 8.22...

FOR maximum effectiveness and safety in the covirse of their work life-boats, both conventional and inshore, must have contact with other units involved. They must, therefore, be able to talk to shore stations, aircraft and other craft at...

Coxswain's Certificate of Service.

The COXSWAIN'S CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE, and a PENSION, have been awarded to : FREDERICK J. WEBB, 27J years coxswain of the Weston-super-Mare...

Search in breaking seas ON THE AFTERNOON of Friday, August 30, 1974, four young children were swimming in the sea off Golden Sands Chalet Park about one mile south of Withernsea ILB station. The wind was fresh and the sea rough and it was...

FOR SEVENTY YEARS Mrs Olwyn M.

Lloyd, now in her ninetieth year—just 60 years younger than the RNLI—has been concerned with men of the sea. It seems fitting, therefore, that she and her husband, Mr R. M. Lloyd, celebrated...

THE Central Committee of the Life-boat Saturday Fund have now completed their first year of work and are issuing their first Annual Report. We have read it with much interest and are satisfied that its contents will afford eminent...

ON the evening of the 28th March, 1962, the motor vessel Ridunian, which was loaded with 150 tons of grit and gravel, sailed from Alderney for St. Peter Port, Guernsey. A fresh breeze was blowing from the south-south west, the weather was...