LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Mr. Charles Livingston, who died on 2nd May of this year, in his eightieth year, was equally prominent as a ship- owner and a yachtsman on the Mersey.

He was for forty years managing director of Messrs. David Maclver &...

Lerwick, Shetlands.—At midnight of February 27th, 1947, a doctor tele- phoned that he was needed for an urgent maternity case at Quarff, and snow prevented him going by road. He asked for the life-boat's help. The motor life-boat Lady...

Weymouth, Dorset.— About 7.55 in the morning of the 8th of August, 1948, the Wyke Regis coastguard tele- phoned a message received from the British steamer Megara that she was standing by the yacht Paviroma, of Southampton, fourteen miles...

Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 6.5 in the evening of the 17th of October, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a ship had reported two small vessels in distress and signalling for help, one and a half miles north-east of Blacktail Spit Buoy, and...

The Deputy Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Commander F. R. H. Swann, O.B.E., and the Secretary, Captain Nigel Dixon, R.N., attended the British Legion 50th anniversary conference at the Royal Albert Hall, London, at the end of May when for the...

The sale of the R.N.L.I. cook book, which was described on page 175 of the October Journal, is going very well and many people have praised the selection of recipes as catering for many tastes. Mrs. Keen has been at pains to include simple...

COXSWAIN W. J. HARVEY of Newhaven, who died on the 27th March, 1962, had been a member of the Newhaven crew for twenty-two years. He was appointed coxswain in 1948 and retired in 1961. Coxswain Harvey, who was an employee of British Railways...

Henry Alston Hewatai Mallaig Mallaig's new all-weather Severn class lifeboat was named after the father of Catherine Hewat of Glasgow, who funded the majority of the £1,8m lifeboat with a bequest in excess of £1 m. The... - View image in PDF