LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AUGUST 7TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.

At 5.20 in the morning the lifeboat watchman saw a large bombing aeroplane come down on fire near the gate vessel.The sea was ablaze with burning petrol. The coxswain rang up the Royal...

Tough When rescue services are called out in extremely rough weather conditions, confidence is assured when supported by a lifeboat thats tough & reliable. FBM have been building tough and reliable boats for many years, since 1929 one...

Bridlington, Yorkshire.—At 11.15 on the morning of the 2nd of December, 1955, an ex-coxswain of the life-boat heard a wireless distress call from a French trawler in the direction of Skipsea. At 11.55 the life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield...

Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire Relief 52ft Arun ON 1103: June 25 and July 14 D class: July 14, 25 and 29 (twice) Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: July 14, 15 and 23 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: June 14 and July 14 Aberystwyth, Dyfed C class: June...

WITH THE DEATH of Lord Saltoun, the RNLI has lost one of its most devoted supporters. His main interest was not so much in technical matters such as boats and methods of communication, but in the people who worked for the Institution, its...

THE LIFEBOAT SERVICE, fire brigade, his family, Southend, the Thames . . .

they are all as much a part of Percy Garon as he is of them; nor would he have it otherwise. Ask him about his life, and he will tell you about the...

ROBERT ANTHONY FOALE of Hyde Park Junior School, Mutley, Plymouth, Devon, has won the first prize in a competition for the best essay on the lifeboat service organized by the Royal National Life-boat Institution. The competition was open to...

A tower of coins It took one year for the landlord of "The Shoulder of Mutton" in Binfield to build a two foot high tower of 2p and Ip coins, using beer as an adhesive and filling the hollow centre with lOp...