LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ben Tart of Dungeness
Ben Tart of Dungeness We are sad to report the death of Ben Tart, one of the most well-known lifeboat coxswains of the East coast, who gave some 50 years service to the RNLI.
Born in Dungeness in January 1915, Ben followed...
Category: Obituaries
The Life-Boat House
its appointed coxswain at a salary of 8/., and an assistant at 22. a year. The crew consists, in addition, of a bowman, and as many boatmen as the boat pulls oars. The members of the volunteer crews are registered, and wherever practicable,...
Category: Articles
Harvest Hope
Girvan, Ayrshire. At six o'clock on the evening of the 23rd of June, 1959, while the life-boat Robert Lindsay was returning to her station after her overhaul at Gourock the coxswain saw a motor vessel stranded on the Brest Rocks south of...
The Motor Fishing Coble Shiela
JANUARY 21ST. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
As the local motor fishing coble Shiela was long overdue, and could not be seen, the motor life-boat The Cuttle was launched at 5.55 in the evening, as night was coming on, to look for her....
Wells the Crew and Those Who Back Them Up Ashore
Portrait of a lifeboat station WELLS the crew and those who back them up ashore by Campbell MacCallum 1 Coxswain David Cox 2 Second Coxswain Anthony Jordan 3 Offshore lifeboat crew 4 Lt David Case RNVR, station honorary secretary 5 Mrs David... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rescue By Breeches Buoy from a Trawler
At 2.30 on the morning of the 4th of February, 1959, the honorary secretary of the Longhope, Orkneys, life-boat station, Dr. S. Peace, received a message from the coastguard at Broughness that the trawler Strathcoe was ashore in the Pentland...
Category: Services
John Wesley
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— At 1.31 on the afternoon of the 26th of March, 1955, the Seahouses coast- guard telephoned that the local fishing boat John Wesley, which had a crew of three, had broken down six miles south-south-east of...
Ex-Coxswain Harold J Hayles BEM
Ex-Coxswain Harold J. Hayles, B.E.M., who retired from the Yarmouth, I.o.W., life-boat in September, 1971, died in March..
Category: Obituaries
Major-General Ralph H Farrant
Major-General Ralph H Farrant (above), former chairman of the RNLI, who has died. - View image in PDF
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Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Pavilion at the Empire Exhibition, Scotland
THE Institution has its own pavilion at the Empire Exhibition, Scotland, 1938, at Bellahouston Park, Glasgow. The pavilion has been built for the Institu- tion by Sir John Burnet, Tait & Larne, architects of the...
Category: Articles