LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

LIFEBOAT AREA No.1 Extended Christmas WHEN the lifeboat on duty at Islay, Inner Hebrides, Scotland, launched to a coaster at 4.15 a.m. on Christmas Day, 1972, she did not return to her station until 8.30 p.m. that evening, over 16 hours...

To SIDNEY H. B. PAGE, on his retirement, after serving for 21J years as coxswain, G months as second coxswain and 1 year as bowman of the Southend-on-Sea life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service, a gratuity and a retirement...

With deep regret we record the following deaths; JULY 1988: John Drew, mechanic of Penlee lifeboat from 1938 to 1970 and assistant mechanic from 1933.

He was awarded a bronze medal in 1947.

NOVEMBER 1988:...

I'm Stormy Stan,} Lifeboatman Extraordinary from Storm force, the RNLI's club for the under 16s - Eric the seagull and I are always to be seen in the club's exclusive magazine, Storm force News.

As well as...

AFTER the valuable work done by Lukin in 1807, in initiating the Norfolk and Suffolk type of Life-boat, there appears to have been a considerable period before any new type found a place on the coast. No doubt small variations from the...

.—On the 13th Decem- ber the barge Sepoy, of Dover, was wrecked off Cromer. Both the Cromer life-boats went to her help and the motor life-boat rescued the crew of two.

—Rewards to the crew of the motor life-boat, bar to...

On the 29th of July, 1956, life-boats from Dover and Dungeness, Kent, and Selsey, Sussex, put out to the help of a number of vessels in distress. A full account of these services for which, among other distinctions conferred, the silver...

LANCE-CORPORAL RAMBAHADUR, who this year was awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery in Sarawak, was in June taken for a trip in Eastbourne's IRB He was staying at Upper Dicker at the home of Major J. Gales, an officer in the loth...