LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ANNUAL AWARDS 1979 The Maud Smith Award for the most outstanding act of lifesaving by a lifeboatman during 1979 has been made to Superintendent Coxswain Brian Bevan for the rescue of the crew of four of the Panamanian cargo vessel Revi in a...

On the same day the Life-boat Arab, also stationed at Padstow, was called out for service, by means of the telephone.

She was launched at 4 p.m., and proceeded under oars to the ketch Fair Water, of Jersey, bound from...

BY the death of Mr. Ernest Armstrong, of Eastbourne, on the 3rd of June, 1952, at the age of 78, the Life-boat Service has lost one of its most devoted and energetic friends, and the committee of management a col- league whose help and...

The schooner Lamorna ready to sail for the South China Seas in search of Captain Kidd's treasure. - View image in PDF

Lifeboat station histories The History of the Penmon and Beaumaris Lifeboats by Jeff Morris published by the author The northern end of the Menai Straits is one of the areas where changing times and use of the sea has led to considerable...

Stephen Gilbert and Graham Bradshaw with the 'rescued' cheque for £1,000 after the Falmouth '999 services' display. With them are, from left to right, Mrs Pat Richards (organiser of the display), George Laity (branch... - View image in PDF

Come and join WORKBOAT THE EUROPEAN TRADE EXHIBITION FOR SMALL COMMERCIAL CRAFT & EQUIPMENT The U.K.'s Small Commercial Craft Industry has expanded to a size that requires its own specialist exhibition - where commercial craft, their...

A CALAMITY like that of the wreck of the steam-ship London is one of those grievous and tragic events with which, in these stormswept islands, the imagination of the public is only too familiar; yet which, out of the depths of misfortune and...