LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Aberdeen, and Newburgh, Aberdeenshire.

—On the morning of the 16th December the Cockenzie drifter Margaret and Francis was bound, light, from Burghead to Leith, with a crew of three on board. A whole southerly gale was...

St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—On the morning of the 16th April, 1938, the local motor boat Sirius put out from Forth Clais with seventeen people on board, for a trip to Grasholme. They did not return when expected, and anxiety was felt for...

AMONG life-boat workers who have died since the last issue of The Life-boat ap- peared are the Marquis of Aberdeen and Temair, a vice-president of the Institu- tion, Mr. John Lewis, for thirty-two years honorary secretary at Holyhead, and...

On the morning of the 9th December the coast- guard telephoned that a motor vessel was driving ashore just south of the pier. A S.S.W. gale was blowing and a very rough sea was running. The motor life-boat E.M.E.D. put out at 9.50 A.M. and...

The following life-boat stations celebrated their centenaries this year: Wey- mouth, Dorset; St. David's, Pembrokeshire; Salcombe, South Devon; and Wells, Norfolk.

At Selsey, Sussex, on 10th June the 48-foot 6-inch...

Coxswain Robert Cross, who had the remarkable distinction of twice winning the gold medal for gallantry, died at the age of 88 on I4th June, 1964. He was former coxswain of the Humber life-boat.

He joined the life-boat crew...

RETURNED SAFELY At 8.45 a.m. on 3rd June, 1964, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that there was a heavy swell on the harbour bar and that four local fishing boats were still at sea. At 9 a.m. the lifeboat Mary Ann Hepworth was...

COXSWAIN ROBERT BUCHAN of the Humber is the superintendent coxswain of the only full-time life-boat crew in Britain or Ireland. He was appointed coxswain in 1959 having served for seven years as a member of the crew. During six of those...