LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Another Life-Boat M.B.E.
In the New Year's Honours Mr. H. M. Smardon, who has been honorary of the Order of the British Empire for his many public services in Brixham..
Category: Articles
Coxswain H. J. Gawn
Coxswain Harry James Gawn, of Bembridge, who died on the 17th June, 1962, had served as coxswain of the Bembridge life-boat for 22$ years.
During this period Bembridge life-boat were launched on service 76 times and rescued...
Category: Obituaries
Maggie Smith, the Sunshine and Girl Mary
Arbroath, Angus.—On the night of the 23rd-24th April the weather became bad, and soon after midnight a strong S.E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea and rain. Six local fishing boats were at sea. One of them, the Maggie Smith, was seen...
A Dinghy
Skin divers trapped AN INFLATABLE DINGHY with four people on board, sighted drifting close inshore north of Fleshwick Bay, was reported to Port Erin deputy launching authority by Ramsey Coastguard, Isle of Man, at 1614 on Tuesday March...
The Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
THE annual meeting of the Committee was held on the 10th January last, at the General Post Office, Mr. W. H. HAINES, of the House of Lords, presiding. The report, read by Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, F.R.G.S., the honorary secretary, stated that the...
Category: Meetings
Three Pleasure Boats, the Sea Pearl, the Sea Otter and the Endeavour
Fog bound ON March 11 two pleasure boats, the Sea Pearl and the Sea Otter, w i t h fishing parties aboard were reported overdue in Ayr harbour.At 6.30 p.m. the Troon lifeboat Conncl Elizabeth Car gill slipped her moorings to make a search in...
Lymington: An Information Case Has Recently Been Put on the Side of the New Ilb House a Solidly Built Metal Structure With Three Opening Glazed Doors It Was Designe
Lymington: An information case has recently been put on the side of the new ILB house. A solidly built metal structure with three opening glazed doors, it was designed, constructed and erected by local 'friends of the lifeboat'. It... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Dinghy
Saved from drowning A 71-YEAR-OLD MAN was out fishing alone in his 9ft wooden dinghy on the afternoon of Monday September 9, 1985.
The weather was fair, there was a moderate south-south-westerly breeze, force 4, with a...
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock 'and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees...
Category: Articles
Duchess of Leith (1)
CURIOUS INCIDENT OFF SHERINGHAM Sheringham and Cromer, Norfolk. At about five o'clock on the afternoon of Thursday the 19th September, 1963, the Sheringham coxswain launched his crab boat to investigate a cabin cruiser, Duchess of Leith,...