LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
March
Launches 33 Lives rescued 136 MARCH 2ND. - WALMER, KENT. At 4.35 in the morning the Deal coastguard reported a vessel in distress off South Goodwin Light-vessel. A northerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea. At five o’clock, the motor life...
Category: Services
(Right) An Rn Wessex Helicopter Exercising In Holes Bay With An Atlantic 21 Rigid Inflatable Lifeboat During Operational Demonstrations at Rnli Poole Open Days 1982
(Right) An RN Wessex helicopter exercising in Holes Bay with an Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat during operational demonstrations at RNLI Poole Open Days 1982.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
In the New Year's Honours List
IN the new year's honours list appeared three lifeboat names. Commander Philip Vaux, D.S.C., R.N., the late chief inspector of life-boats, was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. Mr. John S. Duncan, the honorary secretary...
Category: Articles
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Category: Advertisement
Members' Page
RNLI MEMBERSHIP SCHEME We are grateful to Christopher McGough, one of our Annual Governors, who has brought to our attention some historical notes concerning the membership scheme and, as we reach yet another milestone, it is an opportune...
Category: Meetings
Twenty-Four Hours In the Life-Boat Service
THE table below gives details of the services of the life-boats during a period of twenty-four hours on the 28th-29th of July.
Station Launches Casualty Hours at sea Lives rescued ...
Category: Services
Your Letters
Memorial memories I have been commissioned to write a book on the Maritime Memorials and Mementoes of Great Britain which will be published by Patrick Stephens about the end of 1994.
To supplement the information which I...
Category: Correspondence
Coxswain/Mechanic David Chant of St.Davids
Coxswain/Mechanic David Chant of St Davids became a shore helper and assistant winch man in 1962 before joining the crew in 1984. He was appointed coxswain/mechanic in 1988.
David was awarded a bronze medal this year in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (20)
FEBRUARY 1 8TH. - CLOUGHEY, CO.
DOWN. A British aeroplane had come down in the sea, but it was found by an R.A.F.
rescue launch. - Rewards, £21 13s. 6d..
H.M. Coastguard's Busy Year
IN the past year H.M. Coastguard has taken part in about 750 incidents round the coasts of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Some were dangerous and spectacular, others were minor cliff rescues. They ranged from the recovery of a St....
Category: Services