LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

JANUARY DURING January life-boats were launched on service 30 times but rescued no lives.

FIREMEN TAKEN TO BELGIAN TRAWLER Selsey, Sussex. At 8.20 on the morn- ing of 4th January, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary...

CONDITIONS OUTSIDE LIMITS FOR D CLASS Surfer saved by inshore lifeboat in severe gale and heavy seas Helmsman Stuart Roberts of Porthcawl's D class inshore lifeboat was awarded a Silver Medal for outstanding bravery during the rescue of...

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BOATING HOLIDAYS 'Tiny Purple'...

In April, less than a month before the war ended, a French lifeboat which had served on the British coast for nearly four years, was returned to the French Service. She was the "Jean Charcot" of lie Molene, on the coast of Brittany...

For services to maritime safety, the following have been awarded the MBE in HM The Queen’s New Year Honours:

Mr Roy Barker, Vice-Chairman, Zetland museum; Mrs Jean Frost, Manager, Rhyl lifeboat souvenir shop; Mr Aran...

NEWLYN AND SENNEN COVE, CORN- WALL.—Shortly before midnighton 28th- 29th February information was received through the Coastguard that a steamer had been observed about one and a half miles S.E. of Tol Pedn showing signals of distress. A...

C ratty Draw Members of the Craft Club drew the winning tickets of the RNLI's 57th National Lottery at Headquarters on 30 April.

The Club ('Can't Remember A Flipping Thing') was founded by Jim Marsham and...

ON Friday, 20th February, 1914, a deplorable calamity overtook the Fethard (Co. Wexford) Life-boat, and plunged the lit tie Irish village in mourning for nine of its gallant crew, who gave their lives in the attempt to save the crew of the...