LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Coxswain's Certificate of Service.

The COXSWAIN'S CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE, and a PENSION, have been awarded to the following, on their retire- ment :~ JOHN ANGUS, 35 years coxswain of the...

WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.—On the evening of the 15th April one of the most exciting scenes ever remembered was witnessed at Whitby. The fishing fleet had left port early in the morning, the weather then being generally favourable.

THE great storm of the 31st of January —1st of February, 1953, has had a chronicler of distinction in Mr. J.

Lennox Kerr.* Mr. Kerr has recorded the happen- ings at sea around our coasts on those two extraordinary days when...

AT 4.16 on the afternoon of the 26th of October, 1953, the coastguard rang up the honorary secretary at Aberdeen.

He passed on a message, which he had had from a hotel at Muchalls, that a fishing boat was burning flares off...

Lifeboatman overboard during long service to stricken coaster Members of the Scarborough lifeboat crew hauled their own Second Coxswain, John Trotter, to safety aboard their new Mersey class lifeboat Fanny Victoria Wilkinson and Frank Stubbs...

THE STEEL HULL of the fast slipway lifeboat is built upside down, so that the welder can look down on his work, both making the work easier and also making it possible for him to achieve the best results: the integrity and strength of the...

The Long Service Badge has been awarded to the following crew members and shore helpers who have given active service for 20 years or more: Beaumaris: Crew Member R.G. Zalot.

Bembridge: Assistant Mechanic B....

A TUNE FAMILIAR TO MILLIONS greeted Jan Harvey as she arrived at RNLI headquarters to draw the 33rd national lottery on April 30; it was the theme to Howard's Way, the BBC TV series in which she stars. Miss Harvey had kindly travelled to...