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...

IT has happened on a number of occasions that a Life-boat has acted as ambulance in bringing injured men to shore. Another service of this kind was performed by the Appledoie Motor Life-boat on the 10th October. A wireless message was...

LIBERIAN VESSEL Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 2.30 a.m. on 23rd February, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a vessel was aground opposite Brook coastguard lookout. There was a near gale from the south-east with a rough sea,...

Awards made at the 1996 Annual Presentation of Awards See page 160 of this issue for a report of the Annual Meetings Since the last Annual Presentation of Awards Meeting, the Committee of Management has awarded 6 Honorary Life Governorships,...

Fowey, Cornwall. —• About eleven o'clock in the morning of the 8th of June, 1952, a message was received that a motor boat had reached Fowey and the owner had reported that his friend was missing in the 18-feet motor boat E.M. He had...

Sheringham and Wells, Norfolk.—At 6.20 on the evening of the 8th of December, 1954, a hotel porter told the Sheringham life-boat station that he had seen red rockets off Weybourne.

Four minutes later the Cromer coast- guard...

In the month of March the following excellent services were also rendered by the Caister small Life-boat, the Boys:— "While on a voyage from Newcastle to Dublin, the schooner Punch, of Carnarvon, was wrecked on the Barber Sands, off...

John Owston Forty-One Years Coxswain of the Scarborough Life-Boat. - View image in PDF