LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

RESCUE6When three teenage girls got trapped in a gulley at the base of cliffs in Caerfai Bay on 5 August, their lives were very much in danger. St Davids’ eponymous D class Saint David Dewi Sant was launched but couldn’t get close enough due...

Salcombe's 47ft Watson The Baltic Exchange, her emergency bag inflated, bound for Brixham after being capsi:ed and righting in a violent storm on Ma 10. The photograph was taken by the crew of Torbay lifeboat which was escorting her to... - View image in PDF

AT a meeting of the Committee of Management of the Institution in April it was decided to submit the name of Coxswain Daniel Kirkpatrick to the Italian Embassy in London for the San Remo "Figurehead of Courage" award for 1965. His...

Norman Clark (1902-1920), perhaps one of the best loved of North Berwick's pulling ami sailing lifeboats, on winter service (left). Here can be seen something of the wild fury of which the sea is capable on this rockv shore.. - View image in PDF

Torbay lifeboat Ralph and Bonella Farrant returns to Torquay Harbour with the French racing yacht Corum and her 12-man crew in tow. The 45ft sloop had been in danger of foundering on the rocks off Hopes Nose after her rudder snapped in a... - View image in PDF

Again, on the 31st January, one of the most gallant of the many gallant Life- boat services that are from time to time recorded took place in the neighbourhood of Montrose. For two days previously a strong gale had blown from the south- east...

The Duke of Kent and Mrs Tom Lisle of Cullercoats. - View image in PDF

Almost 20 years after Ms aircraft had been shot down in the Channel, on I2th June, 1944, a former German prisoner- of-war wrote to the British naval at- tache in Bonn to trace the commanding officer of the British escort vessel which had...