LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Mrs Veda Morris names the relief D class lifeboat C John Morris in memory of her late husband.. - View image in PDF

he Chief Inspector Of Life-Boats Lieut-Commander W L G Dutton RD RNR (Centre) Talking Boats In April With Rear Admiral R P Bullard 5Th US Coast Guard. - View image in PDF

By Walter Riggs, Hon. Secretary of the Aldeburgh Branch.

THERE has been a Life-boat Station at Aldeburgh in Suffolk for over a century.

The earliest record of it which the Institution has, is that in...

PADSTOW.—-On the 13th Jan. 1894, the Life-boat Arab rendered assistance to the ketch St. Petroc, of Padstow. The master of the vessel was in need of the services of more men or of a tug, but only a small tug was available and it was...

Jan. 10.—Voted the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum and framed, and 11.10s. each to five men, one of whom was the Coxswain of the Poole Life-boat, for rescuing at great personal risk .one of two men whose boat was capsized on...

BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—On the afternoon of the 1st January, when a strong gale from the N.E. and a fresh in the river had set up an unusually heavy sea on the bar of the Tweed, the barque Result, of Guern- sey, which was bound from Sombrero to...

Coxswain John Petit of St Peter Port receives from HRH The Duke of Kent a third bar to his bronze medal; it was for the service to the Greek freighter Cantonad in last January's storms. John Petit has also been awarded the silver medal,... - View image in PDF

Micky O'Donoughue (centre) and the cast of The Hunchback of Notre Dame' with some of the lottery tickets after the 44th lottery draw on 31 January 1989. With them are Mrs Richard Saunders, a member of the Committee of Management... - View image in PDF