LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

William Milburn, coxswain/mechanic of Sunderland lifeboat from 1974 to 1982. He was the station mechanic from 1950 to 1971 and then served as 2nd coxswain/mechanic until his appointment as coxswain / mechanic in 1974..

• Visitors to Clovelly usually see this famous Devon coastal village in a setting of a calm sea.

Conditions are not always as idyllic as this, however. Evidence of this is given in the excellent Short History of the...

AUGUST 11TH. - PORT ASKAIG, ARGYLLSHIRE. At the request of the doctor on the Island of Colonsay the motor life-boat Charlotte Elizabeth was launched at 11.45 A.M. in a strong westerly wind, and brought from Colonsay to Islay an expectant...

THE fifth Christmas party given by the Staff at the Storeyard at Poplar, with the help of the Staff at Headquarters, to poor children of the district, took place on the 22nd December last at the Poplar Town Hall. Over 150 children were...

The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of a 34 feet by 74 feet self-righting boat. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view, the shaded part showing that devoted to the air-cases, which give extra buoyancy...

Three saved from disabled fishing vessel in gale and severe seasLerwick lifeboat left her moorings at 0500 on Friday 4 November 1994, a little over ten minutes after first hearing from Shetland coastguard that the fishing vessel Achilles had...

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 4.56 on the afternoon of the 7th September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of a message re- ceived from the police that a yacht had capsized three quarters of a mile off Lee-over-Sand at St....

The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...