LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Ex-Coxswain's Gallantry
COXSWAIN THACKSTON CRAFTS, a boat- man of Southsea, was coxswain of the Southsea life-boat from 1893, seven vears after the station was opened, until it was closed in 1918, when he retired, being awarded a coxswain's certificate of...
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A Sailboard
Boy helps save windsurfer Eleven-year-old Ryan Gratton was out fishing with his grandfather on 4 August when they spotted a windsurfer in difficulty. From their boat, Ryan's grandfather helped the windsurfer and Ryan radioed Dover...
Building the Fast Slipway Lifeboat—Part II: on the Stocks
TRADITIONALLY, when building a boat in wood, the first operation is the laying down of the keel from which is built up a framework of stem, transom, bulkheads and other transverse and longitudinal members. When building a small boat in steel...
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Past and Present
50 Years Ago The following article appeared in the December, 1936, issue of THE LIFEBOAT: The Last of the Life-boat Horses.
WHEN the motor life-boat Royal Silver Jubilee, 1910-1935, reached Wells, Norfolk, on llth February...
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Union Star
THE LOSS OF SOLOMON BROWNE AND HER CREW, DECEMBER 19, 1981PENLEE LIFEBOAT, the 47ft Watson class Solomon Browne, with her coxswain, Trevelyan Richards, and all on board, was lost on the night of Saturday December 19 during a service to the 1...
Mary Ann
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands. At 10.48 on the morning of the llth August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor boat had put out earlier in the evening with the owner and his son on board to go fishing and...
The New Chief Inspector of Life-Boats
COMMANDER DRURY has been succeeded as chief inspector of life-boats by Lieut.-Commander P. E. Vaux, D.S.C., R.N., inspector of life-boats for the Eastern district.
Commander Vaux was educated at the Rojral Naval Colleges of...
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Athelduchess
AUGUST 21ST. - ST. DAVID’S, AND ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE. Late on the night of the 20th August, the coastguard reported a vessel ashore inside the south-east rocks of the Smalls off the coast of Pembrokeshire.
She was the...
Wexfordian
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—The motor life-boat K.E.C.F. put out at 11.30 A.M. on the 29th February, as the watchman had reported that the steamer Wexfordian was ashore on Wexford Bar. Mr. W. J. B.
Moncas, the branch...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Holden 'N. Sheader, who has been the motor mechanic at the Scarborough station for 28 years. On the 9th of December, 1951, he won the Institution's thanks on vellum for his part in the service to the...
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