LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

f s -T 4- /a-rrt'C Notes of the Quarter, by Patrick Howarth .. .. .. .. .. 3 Summary of Accounts for 1976 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 4 TT i -*r-r -r T Lifeboat Services .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 6 Volume XLV -v T i Annual Awards 1976 12...

Awards to Lifeboatmen Alan Thomas, coxswain of the Tenby lifeboat, has won the Maud Smith Award for 'the most outstanding act of lifesaving by a lifeboatman' during 1989.

The award follows the lifeboat's rescue...

RNLI lifeguards spent a week on the Isles of Scilly in September, training a group of locals in surf lifesaving.

The group of 12 can now provide safety cover at the sea-based events that are at the heart of Scillonian life...

FOR LIFEBOAT PEOPLE 1982 was a very full year. The Institution's lifeboats were called out more than 3,000 times and the number of lives rescued was the highest in the past seven years: 1,244.

These figures are...

Horrific conditions for two lifeboats Clogher Head and Newcastle 's Mersey class lifeboats were launched in winds of Storm Force 10 to Hurricane Force 12 on 3 February 1994 when an 80ft trawler reported that she was taking water and...

Thanks on Vellum for Scarborough service A service on 12 August 1994 by Scarborough's Mersey class Fanny Victoria Wilkinson and Frank Stubbs, which was reported in the Autumn issue of THE LIFEBOAT, has led to Coxswain Richard Constantine...

by Colin Watson Clogher Head's Mersey class lifeboat Doris Bleasdale punches through a steep sea in nasty conditions on her home patch.

Next Issue: The Summer issue of THE LIFEBOAT will appear in July 1995, and news... - View image in PDF

East Division Rescue in the surf SILVER MEDAL A CALL CAME THROUGH to Tyne Tees Coastguard at 0101 on the morning of Saturday April 15, 1986, that a disabled fishing vessel, the 60ft La Morlaye, with three men on board, was in danger of going...