LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Isle of Wight Coxswain
COXSWAIN WALTER O. COTTON, who died on the 23rd of May, 1948, at the age of 71, served at four life-boat stations in the Isle of Wight. He began his life-boat service in 1898 as a member of the crew at Brighstone Grange, of which his father...
Category: Obituaries
Coxswain Thomas Reay of Maryport
COXSWAIN THOMAS REAY of Maryport died on the 14th of April, 1959, at the age of 77. He served as coxswain from 1932 to 1941 after having previously served as bowman for nearly three years and second coxswain for over twenty-three years. He...
Category: Obituaries
Edwin Distin
Edwin Distin The death occurred in October of ex- Coxswain Edwin Distin, aged 82, the last surviving member of the crew of the Salcombe, Devon, lifeboat disaster of 1916. He held the RNLI's silver and bronze medals. His son, Coxswain...
Category: Obituaries
Mrs. Ferris Tozer, Hon. Secretary of the Exeter Ladies' Life-Boat Guild
By the death of Mrs. Ferris Tozer on 7th October the Institution lost one of its oldest and most energetic honorary workers. The Honorary Secretary of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild at Exeter, she had been a Life-boat worker for...
Category: Obituaries
A Canberra Aircraft
Blackpool and Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire ; Llandudno, Caernarvon- shire ; and Rhyl, Flintshire. Between three o'clock and 3.15 on the afternoon of the 9th of October, 1958, the hon- orary secretaries and coxswains of the life-boat...
International Boat Show
AS THE CLIMAX of 'The Year of the Lifeboat', the RNLI will be playing a prominent part in the 1975 International Boat Show at Earls Court from January 1 to 11. The very first thing visitors approaching the exhibition from Warwick...
Category: Articles
Selsey Station
AFTER forty years' service in the Life- boat, during twenty of which he was Coxswain, Mr. Thos. Sparshott has re- tired with the Institution's pension. On 25th July a meeting was held in the Selsey Life-boat House, at which the...
Category: Articles
One Armed Bend It: Superfit Ian Mckenty (I) and Andy
One armed bend it: superfit Ian McKenty (I) and Andy (r) raised themselves 1,050 times and £140 in cash in 30 minutes by doing one armed press-ups. This excruciating exercise took place in The Ale House, Bath, and was organised by Mr... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of Accounts for 1977
Summary of Accounts for 1977 Full accounts are available from Poole Headquarters.
£ millions 6.5 How expenditure was apportioned Ten years at a glance 0.5 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 Areas of...
Category: Accounts
(Above) Rother:
(above) Rother: Length overall 37ft 6in; beam I l f t 6 i n ; draught 3ft 6in; displacement 13 tons: maximum speed, 8 knots; range at full speed, 150 nautical miles. The Rother, introduced in 1973, is a development of the 37ft Oakley and she... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs