LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

confer the decoration of the Albert Medal of the second class on Sub-lieutenant LIONEL ANDROS DE SAUSMAREZ, R.N., of Her Ma- jesty's ship Myrmidon. The following is an account of the services in respect of which the decoration has been...

Portlethen, Kincardineshire, and Southwold, Suffolk.

ON 26th November, 1924, two acts of great individual gallantry were per- formed in rescuing life from vessels stranded near the shore. One was on the rocky coast of...

"LAURAINE my cousin, Timothy my friend, and myself had a show in which we had on show our colections of buter- flies, moths, birds egg's cigarette cards, stamps, stons, moss and shells.

"Each person had to pay...

At 4.30 p.m. on 6th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a Thames spritsail barge was aground on Margate Hook sands and asked if the IRB could investigate. She had not fired any distress signals but appeared to be in...

THREE members of the New Quay, Cardiganshire, life-boat crew have been awarded bronze medals for gallantry for the rescue of a boy. One is the coxswain, Winston Evans, another the mechanic, Sydney Fowler. The third is a police sergeant named...

The total raised on this year's SOS day, the RNLI’s biggest fundraising day, is over £490,000 and the money is still coming in.

Congratulations and thank you if you organised or supported an SOS event. Next year’s...

LIFELINE When it comes to Life's Little or (BIG) Emergencies It is always handy to have a lifeline, a cellphone lifeline that iSi For the last 2 years we have been providing just that via our 999 network programme - providing Police...

THE forecasting of storms and weather- changes is generally supposed to be wrapped in mystery, md the rules which have from time to time been laid down for the assistance of the would-be fore- caster, to say the least, only experimental,...