LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Committee members of Helston and Porthleven branch Stan Llovd (bicvc/e) and Graham Fern (counter balance) are helping to improve the balance of their branch's account in this tigh! wire act across the entrance to Forth/even Harbour. It... - View image in PDF

Aberystwyth D class inflatable lifeboat was launched on the morning of Tuesday January 12 to go out to meet a fishing boat bringing in people from New Quay and taking back medical supplies and yeast. There were breaking seas on the harbour...

QUEEN'S AWAHD TO INDUSTRY 1967 19(9 19 1 1972 Decca was the first radar set aboard a lifeboat in this country.

That same Decca set is still serving on the same lifeboat; still guiding men through hard seas to safe...

At 2.19 a.m. on I3th July, 1966, a red flare had been reported about three miles offshore in an easterly direction. The lifeboat Edian Courtauld left her moorings at 2.45 in a fresh westerly wind and a choppy sea. It was one hour after low...

Nine seamen rescued from coaster stranded on sandbank in heavy swellA service by Cramer's Tyne class lifeboat Ruby and Arthur Reed II on 21 November 1990 has been recognised in a letter of thanks to the crew from the Chairman of the...

Helmsman Stuart Roberts Silver Medal Helmsman Stuart Roberts of Porthcawl's D class inflatable rescued a surfer in very rough seas and weather conditions outside the normal limits for this class of inshore lifeboat. Despite the short... - View image in PDF

Airbed A BOY AND A GIRL being blown out to sea on an airbed off Ardrossan were reported to the honorary secretary of Troon lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1525 on Tuesday June 21. Five minutes later Troon's 44ft Waveney lifeboat...

When the cross channel hovercraft Princess Margaret collided with the harbour arm at Dover in bad weather on the afternoon of March 30,1985, the relief Arun class lifeboat, A. J. R. and L. G.

Uridge, on temporary duty at... - View image in PDF