LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Bar Lightvessel
DEAD MAN REMOVED FROM LIGHTVESSEL New Brighton, Cheshire. At approximately 9.35 on the morning of Saturday the 24th August, 1963, the Marine Department of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board informed the honorary secretary that a member of...
Cdr John C Mansell
Cdr John C Mansell RN RTD, life president of Newbury branch until his death. He joined the branch in 1969 and served as box secretary, souvenir secretary, vice chairman and chairman and was awarded the silver badge 1983..
Category: Obituaries
Lifeboat Services
CONDITIONS OUTSIDE LIMITS FOR D CLASS Surfer saved by inshore lifeboat in severe gale and heavy seas Helmsman Stuart Roberts of Porthcawl's D class inshore lifeboat was awarded a Silver Medal for outstanding bravery during the rescue of...
Category: Services
A New Life-Boat Film
A YEAR ago the Institution had a sound film made which showed the building of a motor life-boat, from the felling of teak and mahogany logs in Burma and Honduras up to the arrival of the completed boat at her...
Category: Articles
Henry 'Shrimp' Davies (1)
Henry 'Shrimp' Davies Former Cromer coxswain (see right) deaths Henry 'Shrimp' Davies Henry Davies was given the nickname 'Shrimp' after his famous uncle, coxswain Henry Blogg, saw him as a tiny...
Category: Obituaries
The New Launching Tractor
By Captain Howard F. I. Rowley, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life boats.
LAST year the Institution completed the first of a new type of tractor for launching Life-boats off flat beaches. It was built as the result of...
Category: Inaugurations
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boat Men
DURING May, June, July, August, and September, 1921, the following awaids were made to Coxswains and Life-boat men :— To THOMAS HENRY NICHOLAS, on his retire- ment, after ten years' .service as Coxswain of the Sennen Cove Life-boat, and,...
Category: Awards
Centenary of the Institution, 1924
THE Secretary of the Institution pro- poses, if possible, to compile its history for publication in 1924, and he will be most grateful to all Honorary Secre- taries, especially of Station Branches, for every assistance which they may be good...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Wilh. Colding
COLLISION IN A FOG Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—At 5.5 in the afternoon of the 20th of August, 1947, the coastguard received a mes- sage from a vessel five miles north-east of Rattray Head that she was sinking after collision with a trawler...