LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Torbay, Devon. — At 6.40 in the evening of the 26th of June, 1952, the police telephoned for the help of the life-boat for a woman, marooned on a rock off Mansands. She had had a heart attack. With the bowman in charge of a scratch crew the...

Presentation of Medals and Other Awards.

GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON.— On 14th March a meeting was held at the Coliseum, Great Yarmouth, at which the Mayor presided, supported by Mr.

A. H. Cartwright,...

FAR away inland, when tempests blow Wild through the dark'ning night, We list to the roar of the winds as they go, On their hurricane steeds to the fight; For the hosts of the Storm-King are gathering fast Where the white-crested waters...

Now, charity begins at work There's a new way of giving to the RNLI, called Give As You Earn. You join at work and it makes the money you give worth more.

That's because the donation is taken out of your pay by your...

Two Irishmen, neither in the regular service of the Institution, have each been awarded bronze medals for an unusual and gallant rescue carried out on the morning of 29th June, i964,atMeenogahane, Co. Kerry. The two men are Mr. Patrick O'...

CUT OFF BY THE TIDE Holyhead, Anglesey.—Just after mid- day on the 4th of May, 1947, the coast- guard reported that two men had been cut off by the rising tide at Forth Towyn. and the motor life-boat A.E.D.

left her...

THE retirement on pension of John Owston, for forty-one years Coxswain of the Scarborough Life-boat, is an event in our annals which provides an opportunity of giving some brief record of a noble life which has been devoted to the service of...

There’s something about Dartmouth, Devon, that keeps people coming back. Many are content to walk the narrow streets down to the picturesque shore of the River Dart, still guarded by the 15th-century castle that gazes out to sea. Others like...