LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Too many cooks! Portpatrick lifeboat station holds a lifeboat week every year and last year, with the help of the newly formed ladies' guild, raised £6,400. The photograph shows the coxswain and crew preparing the barbecue which was... - View image in PDF

MARCH 19TH. - BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE.

About 12.35 in the morning a message came from the Bridlington coastguard that distress rockets had been seen at Hornsea, eleven miles south of Bridlington, and at 1 A.M. the motor...

A great success, particularly with its many young visitors: that was the verdict on the Modern Lifeboat exhibition held from February 21 to April 21 at the South Kensington Science Museum, London. School parties, more than 700 of them, came...

RELIABILITY ON THE SEAS...

Fairey Marinteknik & R.N.L.I A SUCCESSFUL COMBINATION m The Cowes Shipyard has a long and proud history associated with the "Royal Lifeboat Institution": As early as 1929/30 the...

Freeman of the City: Coxswain ten Patten of Newhaven (centre) was admitted to the Freedom of the City of London at a ceremony at the Guildhall, London, on December 17. He was nominated by Leonard Fernee (I), a freeman and liveryman of the... - View image in PDF

NOVEMBER 7TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA (AT BRIGHTLINGSEA), ESSEX. During the afternoon news came that a vessel had been mined south of Holland Point. A light northerly wind was blowing, and the sea was smooth. The motor life-boat Edward Z....

BY the death of ex-Coxswain Kobert Smith of Tynemouth, on 30th October last, in his eightieth year, one of the greatest of the Institution's Coxswains has passed away. No man more gallantly and more honourably carried on the great...

Falmouth, Cornwall.—The motor lifeboat B.A.S.P. was launched at 4.35 A.M. on the 24th December, as a steamer had been heard blowing continuously on her whistle. A S.W. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. The lifeboat found the s.s....