LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

With the publication of Derek Wood and Derek Dempster's revised book, The Narrow Margin (Arrow Books, 25s.), on which the screenplay of the epic film, The Battle of Britain, is based, some of those who were actively engaged may well...

My husband and I were on Newgale Beach, Pembrokeshire,   on Tuesday 17 July.

We climbed to the top of the shingle bank and saw two surfers in trouble. Along with others, we stood watching the absolutely heroic...

DURING the month of October six Lifeboats were launched in response to signals which were believed to be from aeroplanes in distress. The story of their search shows the way in which the increasing traffic by air is adding to the duties of...

By H. de BOOY, Secretary of the North and South Holland Life-Saving Society.

No doubt ships have stranded and lives have been lost and saved on the coast of Holland from times immemorial, but it was the year 1824 before a...

A 24-MiNUTE film on the life-boat service, Part-Time Heroes, won a silver cup presented by the Ministry of Naval Defence when shown this year at a review of maritime docu- mentaries during the Milan Fair.

The film shows a...

Washed off pier A MEMBER of Amble ILB crew, Keith Stuart, was on his way home at about 1715 on Friday August 19, 1977, when he heard a helicopter working in the area off the south pier. Bystanders were shouting that a boy was in the water....

SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT CROMER OCT. 9TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.

At 6.25 in the morning the Cromer coxswain learned through the Humber radio and the coastguard that a vessel had gone ashore on Haisborough Sands, thirteen miles...

(11)—Second coxswain Dennis Finch.

Became second coxswain when Frank Bloom took over as coxswain in 1964.

Worked as a boat builder at Halls Boat Yard, Walton, until recently. Now takes out fishing parties.... - View image in PDF