LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lieut.-Col. Sir John Collie, C.M.G., M.D., J.P.
Lieut.-Col. Sir John Collie, C.M.G., M.D., J.P., the distinguished physician and the authority on malingering, died on 3rd April at the age of seventy-five.
He had been a member of the committee of management since April,...
Category: Obituaries
Arthur Capewell, Q.C.
MR. ARTHUR CAPEWELL, Q.C., a member of the Committee of Management, died on the 18th of October, 1957, at the age of 54. He was Deputy Chairman of the Somerset Quarter Sessions and held the posts of Counsel to the Lord Chairman of Committees...
Category: Obituaries
Citrine
Early on the morning of the 2nd of January, 1956, the motor vessel Citrine, of Glasgow, sank off the Cornish coast. The Lizard life-boat rescued three of her crew from the sea, and the Coverack life-boat rescued four others from the sea, one...
Charles E. Fielding
MR. CHARLES E. FIELDING deputy chairman of the Manchester and District branch, who had been an honorary worker for the Life-boat Service for 55 years and an honorary life governor of the Institution, died in the Isle of Man in October...
Category: Obituaries
Ex-Coxswain Evan Hughes, of Criccieth
Ex-Coxswain Evan Hughes, of Criccieth.
Ex-Coxswain Evan Hughes, of Criccieth, died on 31st October at the age of seventy. He had served in the Criccieth Life-boat for some forty years.
From 1890 to 1901 he...
Category: Obituaries
Coxswain Walter Pestell, of Palling
Coxswain Walter Pestell, of Palling, Norfolk, who died on 25th February, at the age of eighty-five, joined the Palling Life-boat Crew at the age of eighteen.
Six years later, in 1870, he was appointed Coxswain, and served...
Category: Obituaries
Sir Frederick Bowhill
Air Chief Marshal Sir Fredrick Bowhill, G.B.E., K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. and Bar, died on the 12th of March, 1960, at the age of 79. He had a most distinguished career lasting some fifty years in the Merchant Navy, the Royal Naval Air Service...
Category: Obituaries
Mr. J. C. Hilton
An honorary secretary who gave active service to the Clovelly life- boat station for more than 40 years died on 26th November, 1963. This was Mr. J. C. Hilton, who joined the branch committee in 1922, was honorary secretary from 1932 to 1948...
Category: Obituaries
End of a Class Act
The very last Waveney class lifeboat in the RNLI fleet, Margaret Graham, sailed from her mooring at Amble lifeboat station on 24 July under the helm of her retiring coxswain, Rodney Surge MBE, to take up a new role as pilot boat for Whitby... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rescue
Our lifeboat crews and lifeguards carry out thousands of rescues every year (see launches on page 32). Here are just some of those caught on camera, and see the list below for more reports:
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