LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Following a recent visit to the West Country, Georgette Purches, assistant public relations officer for the RNLI, explains the organisation behind the RAF and Royal Navy helicopter rescue services. She was also in the right place at the...

SWANSEA —On the 4th May, 1872, the Life-boat Wolverhampton, stationed at the Mumbles, proceeded to the assistance of the ketch Jupiter, of Hamburg, which had gone ashore near the harbour during a strong gale from the W. Some of the crew of...

SEARCH FOR YACHT REPORTED ON FIRE Troon, Ayrshire. At 1.34, early on the morning of the 13th May, 1962, the coastguard told the honorary secretary a message had been received that a yacht was on fire somewhere in the Sound of Bute and said...

Dover, Kent.—2nd October. The Hillman air liner G-ACPM crashed in the Channel, and broke in pieces, all seven on board being killed.—Rewards, £2 17s..

TilE annual award for the bravest lifeboat deed of 1947, known as the "Miss Maud Smith's reward for courage,, in memory of John, 7th Earl of Hardwicke," has been made to Coxswain Edwin F. Madron,' of Penlee, for the rescue...

SICK MAN LANDED Salcombe, South Devon;—At 10.20 on the night of the 14th of December, 1947, the Hope Cove coastguard, tele- phoned that the American steamer Thomas W. Owen, of Wilmington, was waiting ten miles due south of Prawle Point for a...

THE Institution has awarded a certifi- cate of service to Joseph Rourke, of Howth, co. Dublin, and has also made him a compassionate grant. He was born in 1854 and became a member of the Howth crew in 1870,-at the age of sixteen. He served...

St. Ives, Cornwall. At 3 p.m. on 34th June, 1965, a member of the inshore rescue boat crew waS informed that' an flntboard motor boat had .broken down <$E St. Ives Head and that another motor boat had gone to, her assistance. On...