LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Eagle Book of Ships
THE Eagle Book of Ships and Boats (Hulton Press, 15/-)., which is excel- lently produced and illustrated, has been published at a most reasonable price. It includes sections on the Royal Navy, the Merchant Navy, safety at sea and sailing....
Category: Articles
A Boat (1)
SMALL BOAT ADRIFT New Brighton, Cheshire. At 6.40 p.m. on 7th October, 1964, the stageman told the honorary secretary that a small boat was adrift in midstream off Brazil buoy, in the river Mersey. Three men were on board and she was...
Mr. C. S. Clayton
MR. C. S. CLAYTON of the firm of Messrs.
Clayton, Leach, Sims & Co., died on the 19th of April, 1951, three and a half months after he had retired from it.
He had then been a partner in the firm for...
Category: Obituaries
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
Coxswain's Certificate of Service.
The COXSWAIN'S CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE, and a PENSION, have been awarded to the following, on their retire- ment :— RICHARD C. JENKINSON, 20J years coxswain and 7f years...
Category: Awards
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain John Strachan, of Peterhead. He has been coxswain since 1922, and during those fourteen years the Peterhead life- boat has rescued 104 lives. Coxswain Strachan was awarded the silver medal of the...
Category: Articles
Here and There
BRISTOW HELICOPTERS have given to Aberdeen's 54' Arun BP Forties an AM VHP (air band) Pye Westminster radio, which allows direct communication between lifeboat and aircraft; the cheque for £350 was presented to Coxswain Albert...
Category: Articles
Weymouth Ladies' Guild
Weymouth ladies' guild raised £700 for branch funds at its annual wine and cheese party in the Springfield Room at Devenish Brewery on April I . The Mayor of Weymouth and Portland, Mrs Joyce Litschi, presented an oil painting of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Arbroath Lifeboat
Arbroath lifeboat crew welcome to their boathouse lifeboatmen from The Netherlands Royal North and South Lifeboat Society (front row) who attended a course at the Robert Gordons Institute of Technology Offshore Marine Rescue Training Centre... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Maud Smith Award
Coxswain George Leith, of the Lerwick, Shetland, lifeboat, who helped to rescue the crew of nine of the trawler Granton Osprey on December 13, 1972, is this year's recipient of the £5 'The Maud Smith Award for courage, in memory...
Category: Awards
Sheelina
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin - At 1.35 a.m. on 26th July, 1969, the honorary secretary learnt that the motor boat Sheelina, with two people on board, was hard aground at the foot of the tower on Dalkey island. The life-boat John F. Kennedy...