LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Perranporth Lifeguard Deshko Matthews was on patrol on 6 April when he noticed a young surfer being dragged out past the breaking waves by a rip current.

The strong offshore wind started to blow the teenager out to sea....

Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines has achieved its latest fundraising target of £150,000.

The money will be used to fund a new Atlantic 85 lifeboat for Kyle of Lochalsh, due on service in 2011. It was raised through passenger...

HOLYHEAD.—The three-masted brigantine Emerald, of Liverpool, was seen flying a signal of distress during a strong 8. gale and a rough sea on the morning of the 13th December. The Life-boat Thomas' Fielden was launched to the assistance...

RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—About noon on the 14th October the schooner Eulala, of Dumfries, was seen to exhibit signals of distress while riding heavily in the bay. She had parted one anchor, and was drifting rapidly towards the rocks.The...

In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded on lages 120, 130, 134, the following launches on service were made during the months September, October and November, 1969, inclusive: Abersoch,...

AN open-air service was held in Newlyn Harbour on the 26th of September, 1954. The Penlee life-boat W. & S.

was tied up in the harbour and it was from the deck of the life-boat that the Hon. Greville Howard, M.P., a...

WHITBY, YORKSHIRE On the 3rd February, 1940, three attempts were made by the Whitby life-boat to rescue the crew of the S.S. Charles, of Bruges.

MOTOR MECHANIC JAMES PHILPOT was awarded the silver...

August Meirig Glyn Davies MBE. ex Llandudno lifeboat coxswain. Meirig first joined the crew as second coxswain in 1964, a position he held until 1970. He was an ILB crew member between 1966 and 1985, emergency mechanic between 1970 and 1982....