LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Portrait of a Coxswain
Coxswain Thomas D. Dawson, of the North Sunderland life-boat The Edward and Mary Lester. Appointed second coxswain in 1951, Coxswain Dawson, who became coxswain in 1955, joined the crew in 1927. He was awarded the bronze medal in 1959 for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Motor Fishing Vessels Stingray and Welsh Lady III
At 2.58 p.m. on 23rd June, 1965, the honorary secretary in consultation with the coxswain decided that the life-boat Anthony Robert Marshall, should be launched to escort two local motor fishing vessels to harbour in view of the bad weather...
Coxswain Henry W. Pearson, of Walmer
Coxswain Henry W. Pearson, an alderman of Deal, who died on 17th November, 1937, at the age of seventy- one, was second coxswain of the Walmer life-boat from 1909 to 1912, when the station was closed, and became the coxswain when the station...
Category: Obituaries
The Mersey Class Freddie Cooper Waits on the Beach at Aldeburgh During Her Official Naming Ceremony on 31 May 1994.
The Mersey class Freddie Cooper waits on the beach at Aldeburgh during her official naming ceremony on 31 May 1994.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Life-Boatman's Generosity. Mr. Richard Cowling. Late Signalman of Scarborough
IT is not only on the seas that Life-boatmen show the fine stuff of which they are made, and we feel sure that the following story will be read with as much pleasure and pride as any story of gallantry and devotion in the actual work of...
Category: Articles
The Private Wireless Transmitting Station Ocean 7 (Radio 270)
At 2.25 p.m. on 5th January, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the private wireless transmitting station Ocean 7 (Radio 270), had an injured man on board, and asked if the life-boat could take him off as he was hi...
Around the Fund Raising Regions
A list of branches and guilds from the Greater London and Eastern Regions GREATER LONDON RNLI 202 Lambeth Road London SE1 7JW Tel 071-928 5742 Regional Organiser, Miss A. Wilkins London Camberwell Central Chiswick and Hammersmith City...
Category: Branches
Above: Poster By Peter Williams Aged 6 of Rugeley Staffs (7 Years and Under); Left: Poster
Above: Poster by Peter Williams, aged 6, of Rugeley, Staffs. (7 years and under); left: Poster by Simon Turner, aged 11, of Horley, Surrey (11 years and over)..
Category: Drawings
Huniber lifeboat crew at the retirement party in September for Coxswain Superintendent Robertson Buchan
Huniber lifeboat crew at the retirement party in September for Coxswain Superintendent Robertson Buchan (centre left) with the new coxswain, Mr Neil Morris, of Withernsea (right). In picture (right) Mr Buchan is examining the radar scanner... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Coningbeg Lightvessel
REQUEST FROM DUBLIN At 9.15 a.m. on 5th December, 1964, the Irish Lights Office, Dublin, asked the life-boat to take a sick man off the Coningbeg lightvessel. The life-boat Ann Isabella Pyemont was launched at 9.55 in a moderate westerly...