LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The following coxswains, members of lifeboat creii's and shore helpers were awarded certificates of sen-ice on their retirement and, in addition.

those entitled to them bv the Institution's regulations, were awarded...

Thanks and remembrance I, as a Shoreline member, am writing to you following the sad death of my brother, the international yachtsman Rob James. He died as the result of an accident while approaching Salcombe in his trimaran Colt Cars GB...

Last bowman Ronald Chapman has been promoted to Second Coxswain of Skegness lifeboat.

This means that the historic position of bowman will no longer exist within the RNLI as he was the last lifeboatman to hold the post.<...

DURING March and April two vessels were wrecked on the Shetland Islands.

They were both vessels sailing from Aberdeen. One was a trawler, the Ben Doran, and, in spite of courageous efforts to rescue her crew, all were...

FLUSHING, CORNWALL Comfortably furnished quayside holiday cottage, sleeping six in three bedrooms, situated in the centre of this quiet village on beautiful Falmouth harbour. Views across the water to Greenbank and the Royal Cornwall VC.<...

A FINE service carried out in an easterly gale resulted in the rescue of all nine people on board a Dutch motor vessel. For this service Coxswain Walter Jonas Oxley, of Walton and Frinton, was awarded the bronze second service clasp for...

W ith one of the world's loveliest, albeit most rugged, coastlines - some 2,650km in length and encompassing waters ranging in potential dan yr from the relatively benign Skagerrak. via the remoteness of the cod banks off the Lofotens....

LAST year, it will be remembered, a list was published in The lifeboat of the twenty Branches which had sent in the largest aggregate contributions, and a list of eleven Branches selected from those with...