LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Top: a contemporary artist's impression of Southport lifeboat at the moment of her capsize (reproduced by courtesy of The Illustrated London News Picture Library)..

COXSWAIN EDWARD J. SMITH, of Kes- singland, who retired in February, 1937, at the age of fifty-eight, on the closing of the station, died four months later. He had served as coxswain for seven and a half years and as an officer of the...

Taking water A LIGHT, CONFIRMED to be a signal for help from a vessel behind the rocks at Irelands Eye, three quarters of a mile north east of Howth lifeboat station, was seen by the harbour master at 2125 on Tuesday, July...

Dungeness, Kent.—In the early morn- ing of the 26th of May, 1950, in a thick fog, the S.S. Cabo Espartel, of Seville, bound for Valentia with a cargo of ammonia, collided with the S.S. Felspar, of Glasgow. About 3.49, just before she sank,...

Every year Ronald Tail (third from left) conducts seashore nature trails, taking holidaymakers on walks along the beach at Appledore and telling them about some of the numerous creatures that live in the pools, on the rocks and in the sand... - View image in PDF

Coxswain William Robinson, of Newbiggin, Northumberland, suddenly collapsed and died on 31st December last, just after he had handed over the Lifeboat to his successor. He had been Coxswain for fourteen years, and previous to that had served...

To WILLIAM TOMS, on his retirement, on the closing of the Station, after serving 11J years as Coxswain, and previously 6J years as Second Coxswain of the Looe Life-boat, a Coxswain's Certificate of Service, and a...

Eight saved on January night IN THE SMALL HOURS of Thursday January 31, 1985 the coastguard reported to Oban's honorary secretary that a fishing vessel, Shemara, was aground on Lady's Rock and was in urgent need of the lifeboat.The...