LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Each year's Annual Presentation of Awards provides an opportunity for an informal discussion on some of the medal services, the lifeboats involved and other aspects of lifeboat work. The day after the presentation of the medals in London...

THE Life-boat Service was on the air a number of times in 1950, both in broadcasts and in television.

In the spring the B.R.C. gave, in the European Service, a series of six broad- casts, in English and seven or eight other...

Unseen dangers The sea looked calm and safe at Forth beach, Cornwall, on 18 June 2005 but for two tired swimmers, the winds and currents were life threateningThe public were enjoying a sunny day at the beach, unaware that a boy and a girl...

By VICE-ADMIRAL Fitz-Roy, F.R.S.

AFTER an unusual continuance of stormy weather—remarkable even in the equinoctial period of our zone—it may interest some of the readers of the Life-boat Journal to hear a few of the...

Less food, more money It has become a tradition that, at the end of the annual conference of the marketing and sales division of Ciba- Geigy UK, delegates are served a ploughman's lunch and the difference in price between that and the...

SOUTH BANK, LONDON, TUESDAY MAY 17 1982: 1,281 people rescued; nearly £16 million raised NOT MANY spring or early summer days have been sunny this year, but Tuesday May 17, when RNLI people from all parts of England, Ireland, Scotland...

Arduous service for two lifeboats called to Ro-Ro ferry in severe weatherCoxswain David Kennett of Yarmouth lifeboat has been awarded the Institution's Bronze medal for gallantry for the rescue of two men from a merchant vessel in winds...

Triple rescueThe last day of June 2001 marked the end of the BT Global Challenge and Calshot's D class lifeboat RJM was at sea to welcome the yachts back to Southampton. RNLI lifeboats are always on call, however, and at just after 3pm,...