LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Developing and supplying specialist equipment for over 4000 crew members is a very expensive exercise. The protective lifejacket pictured above for example costs £180, This is where you and a pair of scissors can help.

Fishguard - Trent class Blue Peter VII On 17 June 1995 Fishguard's brand new Elm Trent class lifeboat Blue Peter VII was officially named - and, to judge by the number of young people gathered on the foreshore for the ceremony, it was...

John Gamble.

RNU area organiser, presents Elaine and Peter Martin with a certificate in recognition of alt their hard work for the RNU over the last 14 years.

Formerly with Button at Hone... - View image in PDF

A MONDAY MORNING IN JUNE, and a divisional inspector of lifeboats waits on an airfield for an early flight. An odd place, perhaps, to pick up the story of the day to day life of a DI, but then this DI's territory takes in an island and...

ALTHOUGH the early part of the past summer was not quite as favourable as could have been wished for demonstrations held on behalf of the Life-boat | Saturday Fund, for the success of which so much depends on tine but not too warm weather,...

Fl Lt J. A. Cowan and Sergeant Dick Guy of RAI- Brawdy were awarded the 1978 L. G.

Groves Memorial Aircraft Safety Prize for their invention of the 'Brawdy Homer'. This instrument will enable ships to home on to any... - View image in PDF

Campbeltown, Argyllshire. At 10.15 on the night of the 4th of April, 1960, the coxswain told the honorary secre- tary that the keeper at Davaar light- house had reported a submarine ashore at the entrance to Campbeltown har- bour. At 10.35...

CAPTAIN the Hon. V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N., Chairman of the Committee of Management, told the annual meeting of the In- stitution at Central Hall, Westminster, on 2ist March, 1967, that, in spite of efforts all round, receipts did not meet...