LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The quick thinking and skill of two honeymooners and RNLI lifeguards were the difference between life and death for a jogger who went into cardiac arrest on a Cornish beach

Mawgan Porth Beach...

Boxed clever Gloucester's Flag Day is always held early in the year, when the weather can be guaranteed to be inclement. This year's collecting went on during a blizzard of snow! Determined to keep the chill wind from my feet and...

(Continued from page 202) hammers and crowbars to break windows and glass partitions, aluminium ladders, harnesses, slings, folding basket stretchers and as many portable lights as possible.

Delegates were also able to draw...

Crew Member John Dew of Torbay was one of two men who rescued two elderly people when fire broke out in a block of flats in Brixham last October.

He had seen the flames while driving home, went to investigate and helped...

EARLY in 1972 the Committee of Management of the RNLI decided to try to raise an extra £50,000 net in Cornwall to complete the total bill for the new Sennen and Falmouth boats.

Commander L. F. L. Hill, RD, RNR, Staff...

• Ship wiring cables and flexible curds manufactured by British Insulated ("allcnder's Cables Ltd are being used almost exclusively in the latest vessels being built for the RNLI. Such cables have to conform to rigorous standards...

THE CHANGING PATTERN of Casualties around the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland has led to the replacement of many traditional lifeboats by the faster inshore lifeboats; they are more suited to the type of casualty involved. In the...

THE PERSISTENCE AND DEDICATION which RNLI supporters have shown in a period of exceptional financial stringency give, at the time of going to press, reasonable grounds for optimism about the financial results in 1976. Encouraging support has...