LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On the 17th-18th June, 1939, the Cloughey life-boat rescued a salvage party of eleven men from the S.S. Arantzazu-Mendi, of Bilbao.

COXSWAIN ROBERT YOUNG was awarded the silver medal.

MOTOR MECHANIC...

Survivors from Green Lily are landed and taken to hospital. None were seriously injured.. - View image in PDF

Last bowman Ronald Chapman has been promoted to Second Coxswain of Skegness lifeboat.

This means that the historic position of bowman will no longer exist within the RNLI as he was the last lifeboatman to hold the post.<...

Caught out ON THE MORNING of Thursday January 31 a fleet of fishing boats sailed from Hartlepool in comparatively good weather which, however, deteriorated fast. Within an hour, a near gale, force 7, had blown up from the east north east...

THE table below gives details of the services of the life-boats during a period of twenty-four hours on the 28th-29th of July.

Station Launches Casualty Hours at sea Lives rescued ...

New Quay, Cardiganshire - At 9.30 a.m. on ist October, 1966, four local fishing boats were still at sea between New Quay and Aberystwyth, when a storm was reported. The life-boat St.

Albans was launched at 9.42 in a gale...

A Welsh Folk Night was held last August at the Royal Pier Pavilion, Aberystwyth, to raise funds for the station's new lifeboat. Soloists, including Helmsman Alan Blair, provided the Welsh flavour but the evening ended with a hilarious...

Margaret’s grandfather and Acting Coxswain william Roberts (left) with Captain Owen Jones, both RnLI Gold Medallists. - View image in PDF