LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The RNLI’s Annual Presentation of Awards was held in London’s Barbican Centre on 22 May with guest of honour HRH The Duchess of Cornwall. She presented the RNLI’s Silver Medal for Gallantry to Torbay Coxswain Mark Criddle for his part in...

Workington, Cumberland. At 2.30 on the morning of the 29th November, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dredger and a hopper had broken from their moorings off Workington and were drifting ashore. The life-boat Man-...

On the 6th December the schooner Laura Ann, of Faversham, was in a dangerous position at the entrance to the Humber. The Life-boat Manchester Unity proceeded to her assistance, and helped the crew to get up her anchors, after which she was...

The Story of the Land's End Lifeboats (D. Bradford Barton Ltd., Truro, 155.) is the second volume in the admirable series on Cornish life-boats being fompiled by Cyril Noall and Grahame Farr under the composite title Wreck md Rescue...

During a moderate W.N.W. gale and rough sea j on the 8th April the sprit sail barge I Mary Ann, of Rochester, stranded on the North East Buxey Sands, and the Motor Life-boat Albert Edward was dispatched to the assistance of those on...

BOULMER, CULLERCOATS, NORTH SUNDERLAND, SCARBOROUGH, and TYNEMOUTH.— On the 7th January a sudden gale sprung up accompanied by a high sea, and between 9.30 A.M. and 4.45 P.M. five Lifeboats —the Meliscent, stationed at Boulmer, the...

THE BEST WEATHER CLOTHING IN THE WORLD AIRFLOW COAT JACKET & LIGHTWEIGHT JACKETS ARE WATEPPPOOF & FREE COMOerNJBATIOlM FROrV ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE BOAT INSTITUTION letter of 28 February 1974 from Assistant Superintendent (Stores) •...

Walter Stanley (Jim) Firman, Scarborough tractor driver from 1952 to 1969, after serving as tractor driver helper from 1949 to 1952; during that time he was never known to miss launch or recovery. On his retirement at 65, Jim Firman sold...