LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Awards to Lifeboatmen Alan Thomas, coxswain of the Tenby lifeboat, has won the Maud Smith Award for 'the most outstanding act of lifesaving by a lifeboatman' during 1989.

The award follows the lifeboat's rescue...

Some w a y s of f i l l i n g t he CO f f e r s . . . A clean sweep! The Royal Burgh of Cullen ladies lifeboat guild, established in May 1990, recently held a tombola evening which raised £700. The village of Cullen in north east...

‘The cause is individual, national, and universal … The people and vessels of every nation, whether in peace or in war, [are] to be equally objects of this Institution …’

They are the words of Sir William Hillary, who...

FOUR BOATS AND CREWS SAVED IN deteriorating weather conditions on 8th November, 1971, the 70-foot steel life-boat Grace Paterson Ritchie, stationed at Kirkwall, Orkney, went to the aid of the Danish fishing vessel Clupea which had broken...

Launches 32. Lives rescued 31.

OCTOBER 8TH. - CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN. At 12.30 P.M. the Tara coastguard reported that the motor  boat Dawn, of Glasgow, engaged on salvage work, was showing signals of distress at the...

ON THURSDAY April 8, the honorary secretary of St Ives lifeboat station was down at the boathouse in the late afternoon when, at 1628, he saw a 16ft sailing dinghy leave harbour with two young men and two youths on...

PADSTOW.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently sent a large Life- boat to Padstow, on the north coast of Cornwall, to take the place of a smaller one forwarded there some years since.

The new boat is 34 feet long...

THE LIFEBOAT SERVICE, fire brigade, his family, Southend, the Thames . . .

they are all as much a part of Percy Garon as he is of them; nor would he have it otherwise. Ask him about his life, and he will tell you about the...