LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

WILLIAM FLEMING, former coxswain of the Gorleston life-boat, died on the 30th of September, 1954, at the age of 89.

He was born in 1865 and first served as a member of the Gorleston crew before he was twenty. He became...

ON Friday, the 7th May last, occurred another of those fearful calamities which, like the foundering of the London and the Northfleet, ever and anon startle the whole British community, and serve to remind us of the uncertainty and...

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Atherstone, J. G., Esq., Montrose (balance) 487 6 2 Chapman, Mrs. M. A., Cathcart Road, S.W 1100 4 4 Dudley, J. W., Esq., Woodforrt . 700 - -...

THE STEEL HULL of the fast slipway lifeboat is built upside down, so that the welder can look down on his work, both making the work easier and also making it possible for him to achieve the best results: the integrity and strength of the...

Cromer, Norfolk.—During the morning of the 18th June, 1939, a small boat with five boys on board was seen two miles N.N.E. from the life-boat station.

A moderate S.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. The boat was...

Newhaven, Sussex. At 4.43 p.m. on 27th November, 1965, flares were observed, fired from a small fishing boat which was drifting across Seaford Bay.

Her anchor cable had parted and her engines had failed. The life-boat...

THIRTY-EIGHT life-boatmen, from English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh stations were invited to attend the annual meeting in London, on 26th April, to receive medals and vellums awarded to them for gallantry during the previous year. This is the...

To THOMAS PATTON, on his retirement, alter serving for 27J years as Coxswain of the Portrush Life-boat, a Coxswain's Certificate of Service, and a Pension.

To MATTHEW GRUNNILL, on his retirement, after serving for 23J...