LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE three life-boatmen who lost their ! lives when the crab boat Boy Jimmy sank a hundred yards off shore near Cromer were all members of the Cromer No. 2 life-boat.

One was the coxswain, James William Davies, who was...

THE Institution is again issuing a life- boat calendar for the New Year and a life-boat Christmas card.

The calendar has on it a reproduction in colours of a picture by Mr. Charles Dixon, R.I., of the rescue by the Cromer...

Two selections of stories for the young which have recently been published contain accounts of the exploits of the great Cromer coxswain, Henry Blogg.

All in the Day's Work (Hamish Hamil- ton 6/6) opens with an extract...

THE Institution is again issuing in the autumn a life-boat calendar for the New Year and a life-boat Christmas card.

The calendar will have on it a reproduction in colours of a picture by Mr. Charles Dixon, R.I., of the...

Alarmed to see a boat which ap- peared to be in difficulties in heavy seas on I4th April, a public-spirited Blackpool shopkeeper reported the news to the life-boat station. Raising his binoculars to scan the sea, the boat- house attendant...

THE Belfast branch of the Institution had a stand at the Royal Ulster Agricultural Show on 25th-28th May.

Models of pulling and sailing and motor life-boats were shown, photographs of famous coxswains and wrecks, and items...

The famous life-boat stations at Cromer and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston have won for two services in August and October 20 medals, 25 vellums and £234 in money awards. The first service was to six steamers wrecked close together on the...

Charles Dixon and the
Golden Age of Marine
Painting

by Stuart Boyd
Review by Carol Waterkeyn

Charles Dixon was one of the greatest maritime artists, living from 1872 to...