LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Mr Grant Hodgkinson of Grant's Sandwich Bar in Holmes Chapel presented the local committee with a cake designed in the shape of a lifeboat, which was to be first prize in the Christmas raffle.. - View image in PDF

5am Baxter, president of Morecambe station branch, helps with a draw at Morecambe Yacht Club which raised more than £1,000 for the lifeboats. Ho/ding one of the prizes is the raffle promoter, Mrs Jean Kilpatrick. photograph by courtesy... - View image in PDF

April Dr Robert Rees Prytherch, a lifelong supporter of the RNLI who had been honorary medical adviser at Criccieth since 1956 and chairman of the station branch for many years. He was awarded the silver badge in 1966..

For the craftsman in model boat building A 1:1 scale model in wood Price: £34.95 (portholes, lifebelt, propellers and numbers not included) The 48' 6" Solent Class Life-boat by (by arrangement with the R.N.L.I.) EROKITS LTD...

George Smith, international flower arranger and author, completes a large decoration at a flower arranging demonstration organised by Leicester ladies' guild at the Grand Hotel, Leicester. The evening, attended by 450 people, raised... - View image in PDF

Coxswain Frederick James Palmer, who joined the Weymouth lifeboat crew in 1926, serving as second coxswain from 1931 to 1940, and as coxswain from 1946 to 1962. He was awarded the bronze medal in 1948 and the silver medal in 1949..

Helmsman Frank Dunster of Hayling Island. He joined the lifeboat crew in August 1974 having previously been connected with the Hayling Island Sea Rescue and Research Organisation. Frank was awarded a chairman's letter in 1978, a bronze... - View image in PDF

March 1988 James Paton, coxswain of Montrose lifeboat from 1955 until his retirement in 1980. He joined the crew in 1946 and was bowman from 1946 to 1953, becoming second coxswain in 1953 until his appointment as coxswain. In 1972 he was...