LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
John Nicholson
John Nicholson MBE, coxswain of New Brighton lifeboat from 1939 to 1954. He first joined Hoylake crew in 1911 and then the New Brighton crew in 1921, and was second coxswain of No. 2 boat from 1922 to 1932 and No. 1 boat from 1932 to 1938....
Category: Obituaries
John Roberts
John Roberts, coxswain of Sennen Cove lifeboatlifeboat from 1948 until his retirement in 1959. He joined the crew in 1910 on the pulling and sailing lifeboat Ann Newhon. becoming second coxswain in 1944..
Category: Obituaries
Exeter Healthcare (1)
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A Motor Dinghy From Wishbone
On the afternoon of the 20th July the motor life-boat Hearts of Oak, when off Sconce Point on her return to Yarmouth from exercise off Milford, saw a motor dinghy from the yacht Wishbone drift- ing rapidly towards Shingle...
Ludovicus, the S.S. Pampa and Magdimeta (1)
ALDEBURGH and HARWICH.—In response to a message received by telephone, the Life-boat Aldeburgh was launched at 5.30 A.M. in a whole gale from N.E. and a terrific sea, with very heavy rain and snow squalls, and saved the crew of three men...
Sanchia
Atlantic 21 saves exhausted yachtsman from breaking seas on lee shoreHelmsman Alan Clarke of the Hunstanton lifeboat has been accorded the Thanks of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution inscribed on Vellum, following the rescue of a...
Sixty Years of Service
MR. J. R. BARNETT, O.B.E., M.I.N.A., of the famous Glasgow firm of Messrs.
G. L. Watson, retired at the end of July from the post of consulting naval architect to the Institution, and the Committee of Management, as some...
Category: Articles
Molesey, of London
Angle and St. David's (Pembrokeshire).
On 25th November, at 2.35 in' the afternoon, a message was received by the Tenby Coastguard from the Fishguard Radio that the steamer Molesey, of London, of 4,000 tons, was...
Mrs Margaret Gething
JANUARY 1989: Mrs Margaret Gething, president of the Hepworth & Scholes Ladies' Guild for 12 years and vice-president for two years..
Category: Obituaries