LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

January 1998 Agnes Bell, past president and committee member of the former Dunoon ladies lifeboat guild. Mrs Bell was a committee member before 1940 and was president from 1975 until 1987. She was awarded the gold badge in 1982..

Royal Mail employee Jenny Davison went crackers at Christmas, dressing up as one and doing the rounds of the Royal Mail at Guildford. - View image in PDF

Jenny managed to pull £166.24 in a stunt which went with a bang…. - View image in PDF

John Richards, chairman of Cowbridge branch. He joined the branch in 1976 and was its chairman from 1979 until his death. Mr Richards was awarded a Silver badge in 1990 and was also treasurer of the Horton & Port Eynon lifeboat station...

Lifeboatman leaps aboard runaway speedboat An incident on 29 July 1995 in which a speedboat owner fell overboard while retrieving his brother from the water left one of them injured by the boat's propeller and with their boat careering...

Roger Leigh-Wood DL, a life vicepresident of the RNLI. Mr Leigh-Wood joined the Committee of Management in 1956 and served as deputy treasurer from 1961-1971. He was made a vicepresident in 1972 and a life vice-president in 1981..

January, 1987 Dudley Stone, coxswain of Torbay lifeboat. Coxswain Stone joined the lifeboat crew in 1958 becoming second coxswain in 1961. In 1970 he was appointed coxswain until 1972 when he retired from the service..

70-year-old Jane Trembath on her epic row down the River Dart, escorted by Torbay's new D class inflatable, and (inset) Jane at the oars during her 25-mile fund raising trip.

(Inset photo courtesy Western Morning... - View image in PDF

Coxswain William Crowley, who joined the Fenit, Co Kerry, lifeboat crew in 1928. He was bowman from 1936 to 1938, second coxswain from 1938 to 1942 and from 1945 to 1947 when he became coxswain, a position he held until the station closed in...