LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hawksdale (1)
MARGATE AND CLACTON-ON-SEA.—On the morning of the 26th January, while a strong gale was blowing from N.N.E.
accompanied by a heavy sea, the Margate boatmen observed a large vessel apparently in dangerously close proximity...
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to ttem, 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...
Category: Articles
On Sunday June 5 Mr and Mrs Jack Bunn Were Hosts at the Maybush Inn Newbridge-On-Thames for the Maybush Jubilee Festival and Regatta Organised With Witn
On Sunday, June 5, Mr and Mrs Jack Bunn were hosts at the Maybush Inn, Newbridge-on-Thames, for the Maybush Jubilee Festival and Regatta, organised with Witney branch. Sheep dog handling, country dancing, tug-of-war and an evening of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Statement of the Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution from 6 January to 12 June 1860
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Category: Services
Peter Race
Coxswain Teesmouth Tyne class lifeboat Bronze medal 26 August 1989 A NNW Force 7 was blowing on to rocks underasheer cliff when Coxswain Race took the Relief Tyne class lifeboat Owen and Ann Aisher in to heavy breaking seas to rescue the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Loss Of A Comrade
The loss of a comrade It is almost 10 years since RNLI Coxswain Hewitt Clark and Coastguard Winchman Billy Deacon attended the Green Lily, struggling in ferocious conditions off the Shetland Isles. Only one of these two brave men was to...
Category: Articles
Coxswain Robert Cross
Coxswain Robert Cross, who had the remarkable distinction of twice winning the gold medal for gallantry, died at the age of 88 on I4th June, 1964. He was former coxswain of the Humber life-boat.
He joined the life-boat crew...
Category: Obituaries
Pasithea
HARWICH.—On the 16th February, at 6 P.M., information was brought by a Ramsgate smack that a large vessel was ashore on the Long Sand, and that the crew were in great danger. The Life-boat Springwett immediately proceeded there, but, on...
Hilton
A welcome that leaves other Boat Show packages in our wake.
A trip to the London International Boat Show, January 6th - 16th 2000, is even better when you make a Hilton or Stakis Hotel your first port of call. The friendly...
Category: Articles
Book Review
S.O.S. The Story of the Life-boat Service. ByCyrilJolly. (Cassell, 12s. 6d.) Mr. Jolly has already written the life of Coxswain Henry Blogg, of Cromer.
Here he tells the story of the life-boat service. His book is...
Category: Articles