LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 240, 255 and 274, the following launches on service were made during the months of June to August, 1966, inclusive: Aberdovey,...

THOSE who attended the annual general meeting of the governors of the Institution on yth April, 1964, were told that 364 people had been rescued by the Institution's life-boats and inshore rescue boats during the previous year, without...

THE new Sennen Cove life-boat is a gift to the Life-boat Service from one of its most generous benefactors, the late Mr. Charles Carr Ashley, who died at Mentone in 1906. He bequeathed his estate to the Institution, subject to a number of...

RESCUES BY HELICOPTER AND PILOT CUTTER Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire. At 3.47 on the afternoon of the 22nd August, 1962, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that a motor vessel had capsized on the Kibble bar. At 4.12 the life-boat...

C class takes off two survivors before fishing boat breaks up Helmsman Ian McDowell of the St Bees lifeboat has been awarded the Institution's Bronze Medal for the leadership, skill and courage he displayed during a service to a fishing...

Lifeboat Services June and July, 1987 Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire D class inflatable: June 24 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21 :} Ay 20 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: July 20 Aberystwyth, Dyfed C class inflatable: July 5 and 31 Aith, Shetland 52ft...

Stilgoeing strong On 5 March Riegate and Redhill branch and guild held an Anniversary Dinner at Reigate Manor Hotel.

Nearly 120 people attended the event and guest of honour was entertainer and High Sheriff of Surrey,...

By advices from Newfoundland, Nov. 14, it appears that the brig Emma, Captain WHITE, 80 days from Liverpool, with a cargo of salt, was lost about midnight "on Saturday last, at Seal Cove, a small opening three miles north of Flat Hock,...