LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Clifton Smith-Cox
AUGUST 1991 Clifton Smith-Cox CBE TD, founder member of Clevedon branch and president from 1974 until his death..
Category: Obituaries
Surgeon Captain F.W. Baskerville
Surgeon Captain F.W.
Baskerville was elected to the Committee of Management in 1964 and was appointed a Vice President in 1974. He became a Life Vice President in 1985..
Category: Obituaries
Notes of the Quarter
ONCE again figures show that life-boats have been called out on service more often in one particular month than in the corresponding month in any year, either in peace or war, since the Royal National Life-boat Institution was founded in...
Category: Articles
Nature of Services By Life-Boats
CLASS Fishing boats - all types Motor vessels, steamers, barges, motor boats, etc.
Sailing yachts, sailing dinghies, sailing boats, motor cruisers and motor yachts Aircraft f Small boats, canoes, rubber dinghies,...
Category: Services
Pulling a Bird!
Denis Twomey, RNLI area organiser for the South West, and 74 students from Bristol University Air Squadron recently managed to pull a 65 tonne Hercules aircraft a mile along runway 24 at RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire.
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Category: Photographs
The Women of Boulmer. Seven Hours on Duty In a December Night's Blizzard
ON 20th December, 1925, a blizzard was blowing on the north-east coast, one of the severest for many years. The s.s.
Amble, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, a collier which loads at Amble, was riding at anchor in Alnmouth Bay, but...
Category: Services
The S.S. Pibroch
Campbeltown, Argyllshire. — At 7.10 in the evening of the 9th of March, 1948, the Southend coastguard reported a vessel in the Sound of Sanda burning a red light or flare, and the motor life- boat City of Glasgow was launched at 7.20 in a...
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To W. J. HANNANT, on his retirement on the closing of the Station, after serving 11 years as Bowman of the Hasborough Life-boat, a Pension.
To CHARLES H. HARVEY, on his retirement on the closing of the Station, after...
Category: Awards