LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

South West Division Among rocks A YACHT firing red flares near Green Island was reported by Police HQ at 0326 on Saturday September 3, 1983, to the deputy assistant harbour master at St Helier, who is also deputy launching authority of St...

—The following account is given of a recent interview between Louis NAPOLEON and a man named LEFEORE, who has been instrumental in saving many lives:—-" How long is it, Lefeore, since I decorated you—and how many men have you saved...

NEW BRIGHTON.—The tubular Life- boat on this station having become unfit for further service has, in accordance with the wishes of the crew, been replaced by a non-self-righting sailing Life-boat of the Watson type, 43 ft. long and 12 ft. 6...

At 2 P.M.

on the 2nd February it was necessary to launch the No. 1 Life-boat Forester, to assist four of the fishing cobles, which were at sea, the weather having become very rough, with a N.N.W. gale and very choppy sea....

AUG. 8TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK, AND WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX.

A message had been received from the Colchester Air Observers’ Post, through the coastguard, that three Royal Air Force aeroplanes had crashed into the sea,...

Mr A.M. (Monty) Leaney, founder member of Twickenham and District branch in 1957 and vice chairman for many years. He was awarded a Silver Badge in 1989..

Busiest year yet At the RNLI’s AGM on 17 May, Chairman Admiral Sir Jock Slater gave an overview of 2006, the charity’s busiest year ever.

Lifeboat crews launched 8,377 times in 2006, an average of 23 times a day, rescuing 8...

THE Royal National Life-boat Institu- tion has had only four secretaries during the 107 years of its existence. The first was Thomas Edwards, who served from 1824 to 1850. Richafd Lewis (1850 to 1883) and Charles Dibdin (1883 to 1910) were...