LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE Flag Officer Air (Home) has sent a gift of £50 from his Benevolent Fund and in doing it says that he wishes to mention in particular work done by the Institution's stations at Portrush and Padstow. These stations have been out...

On the 14th-15th of August, 1958, the Fenit and Galway Bay life-boats carried out a long and unsuccessful search for survivors of a K.L.M.

Constellation aircraft, which had crashed into the sea. An account of their search...

October 1996 Mr W H (Sam) Dee, chairman and honorary secretary of Pembury branch from 1985 until his death. He was awarded a statuette in 1994..

" You are at the seaside. You get into conversation with a fisherman and find that he is the life-boat coxswain. Describe your conversation with him." IN 1938 the competitors in the essay competition were asked to imagine...

Lifeboats from Sweden and Norway visited Poole in May on their way to the 15th International Lifeboat Conference at La Coruna, Spain (a full report of which will appear in the Autumn journal). Pictured (left) are Norway's Skomvaer III,... - View image in PDF

DECEMBER 1991 Mrs Joan Jenkins, honorary secretary of Truro branch since 1972. Mrs Jenkins joined the committee in 1971 and from 1972 until her death served as joint honorary secretary with her husband. She was also souvenir secretary and...

Pages 20-21: A complex training exercise underway, calling on the skills and fitness of all the crew Photo: Mark Passmore. - View image in PDF

THE worst disaster which has fallen on the Life-boat Service for many years occurred on 15th November. It fell with crushing weight on the gallant Life-boat Crew of the little village of Rye Harbour, sweeping away practically the whole adult...