LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Venscapen and Fox
ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.—On the 20th November, whilst one of the most violent storms that has visited this coast for many years past was raging, the hull of a vessel was seen off Aldeburgh at about 6.30 A.M.
she appeared to be...
The Life-Boat Service In Japan
THE Imperial Japanese Society for Saving Life from Shipwreck (Dainippon Teikoku Suinam Kiusai Kwai) was established in 1879, but was not incorporated by Imperial Charter until 1899. At the present time the Society has 17 stations on the...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter By the Editor
'THE Year of the Lifeboat', as 1974 is to be known, will be an occasion for everyone connected with the lifeboat service to feel both pride and humility.
A record of 150 years of voluntary service, as a result of...
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Luffness
Aberdeen. On the morning of the 21st of January, 1958, the steam trawler Luffness, of Granton, went aground at the north pier. She was badly holed and her crew had decided to leave her.
At 10.45 the life-boat Hilton Briggs...
French Honour for a Coxswain
ON the 26th of November, 1948, at the Guildhall, St. Ives, Cornwall, the French consul at Southampton presented to Mr. William Peters, former coxswain of the St. Ives life-boat, the Brevet de Chevalier de 1'Ordre du Merite. The ...
Category: Awards
Mr. Harold Cowie, S.S.C.
MR. HAROLD COWIE, s.s.c., a former member of the Committee of Management, died on the loth December, 1963.
Mr. Cowie served on the Committee of Management from 1949 until his resignation a few months before he died. He was...
Category: Obituaries
People and Places
New Year Honours Among the awards announced in the New Year Honours list were: Knights Bachelor Rear Admiral Morgan Morgan Giles, DSO QBE GM. For political service. Admiral Sir Morgan Morgan Giles has been a member of the Committee of...
Category: Articles
Engineer Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Dixon, K.C.B.
THE committee of management greatly regret the death, on 28th July, at the age of 72. of their colleague Engineer Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Bland Dixon, K.C.B. Sir Robert concluded a dis- tinguished career in the navy by serving as engineer-in...
Category: Obituaries
Skjold
BEMBRIDGE, I.W.—At about 7 P.M. on the 14th October the City of Worcester Life-boat put off to the assistance of the Norwegian brigantine Skjold, which had lost her masts and was drifting during a W. gale. A steam-tug had arrived at the...
Salome
Dungeness, Kent. At 12.25 early on the morning of the 16th of July, 1958, the Lade coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Salome of Colchester, which was in tow of the pilot cutter Pelorus, was half full of water and her...