LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Oliver, G.C.B., K.C.M.G., M.V.O., LL.D.
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Oliver, G.C.B., K.C.M.G., M.V.O., LL.D., died in his loist year on i5th October, 1965. He was, in the words of The Times obituary, "one of the outstanding seamen of his time". A man of few words and...
Category: Obituaries
An American Mustang
JANUARY 13TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 3.14 in the afternoon the naval authorities at Harwich reported, through the coastguard, that an aeroplane was down east of Clacton pier. A fresh east-north-east wind was blowing, with a moderate...
S.S. Favorit
NOVEMBER 17TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At about 10.20 A.M. the police asked for the services of the life-boat to land a badly wounded man from a steamer in the roadstead. The sea was rough, with a moderate S.S.W. breeze...
The Scottish Life-Boat Council
THE Scottish Council held the first of its meetings for 1928 on 26th March, in Glasgow. The Duke of Montrose, C.B., C.V.O., V.D., Chairman of the Council, presided, and there were representatives present from Glasgow, Buckie, Perth, Greenock...
Category: Meetings
Derek Scott Bem
Derek Scott, BEM, coxswain of The Mumbles lifeboat, has been accorded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum for the rescue in his own dinghy of two men on December 22, 1981. Coxswain Scott already holds three medals for gallantry... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
BIENVENUE!
Eastbourne’s Mersey class lifeboat Royal Thames was launched on 22 August to help the crew of a yacht that had suffered mechanical failure.
Lifeboat crew members are pictured onboard the yacht setting up a tow. The yacht’s...
Category: Articles
Mrs. Hodgetts, of Lewisham
Mrs. Hodgetts, of Lewisham, who died on 19th September, 1931, after a short illness, was one of the oldest of the Institution's honorary workers. She was Honorary Treasurer of the Lewi- sham, Lee and Eltham Ladies' Auxiliary of the...
Category: Obituaries
Frances
At about 6 A.M.
on the 19th March, during a moderate N.E. gale, a telephone message was received reporting that a dismasted schooner was in distress off Trevose Head. The No. 2 Life-boat Edmund Harvey, in tow of the tug...
Mr. Charles Livingston, Liverpool
Mr. Charles Livingston, who died on 2nd May of this year, in his eightieth year, was equally prominent as a ship- owner and a yachtsman on the Mersey.
He was for forty years managing director of Messrs. David Maclver &...
Category: Obituaries
The S.S. Atlantic Sea
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 8.37 on the evening of the 15th of August, 1955, the Spurn Point coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Atlantic Sea, of Panama, had reported that a member of her crew had been seriously injured by a falling derrick...