LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AT 9.30 on the night of the 19th of October. 1955, the son of Coxswain George Flett of the Aberdeen no. 1 life-boat heard a vessel in the bay blowing her siren continuously. He telephoned this information to the honorary secretary of the...

At Scarborough recently, when the life-boat was called to the rescue of an airman, an army vehicle gave valuable help by towing her across heavy sand and into the sea. At Newcastle, Co. Down, when only 28 launchers could be mustered,...

Mrs. Walter, of Southampton, died in April, only a month after she had resigned the Honorary Secretaryship of the Southampton Branch, on account of ill-health and advancing years. She was in her eighty-seventh year....

COXSWAIN EDWARD J. SMITH, of Kes- singland, who retired in February, 1937, at the age of fifty-eight, on the closing of the station, died four months later. He had served as coxswain for seven and a half years and as an officer of the...

JOHN HERBERT DUDLEY RYDER, fifth Earl of Harrowby, died on the 30th of March, 1956, at the age of 91. The Earl of Harrowby had held the office of treasurer of the Institution longer than anyone else in the Institution's history. He was...

Coxswain William Miller, of Eye- mouth, Berwickshire, who died on 13th February, at the age of sixty-eight, served as coxswain for twenty-six years. He was appointed coxswain in 1901, and retired in 1927, when he was awarded a certificate of...

A member of the Institution's staff, Mr. Thomas Edgar Langridge, was killed last Christmas morning. He was cycling along a snow-bound road in Wembley, near his home, when he collided with a motor car. Two hours later he died in hospital...

Coxswain James Campbell of Boul- mer died on the 18th of May, 1959, at the age of 79. He first joined the Boulmer crew in 1906, was bowman for nearly a year in 1929, and was then second coxswain for ten years. He was coxswain from 1939 to...