LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Henry Albert (Buller) Griggs, of Hythe, Kent. He was second cox- swain for two and a half years, and for over nineteen years has been coxswain; so that he has been an officer of the life-boat for...
Category: Articles
Coxswain Thomas Bowen, of Cardigan
Coxswain Thomas Bowen, who died in December last at the age of seventy- seven, was for over twenty-five years an officer of the Cardigan life-boat, and for nineteen of those years its coxswain.
He retired in 1920 on account...
Category: Obituaries
New Golden Spray
Margate, Kent. At 12.50 on the afternoon of the 16th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the motor boat New Golden Spray of Margate had developed engine trouble a mile and a half south-east of...
Sangara
Penlee, Cornwall. At seven o'clock on the evening of the 25th of May, 1960, the honorary secretary was informed that a woman who was a passenger on board the m.v. Sangara of Liverpool, had had a haemorrhage and needed a doctor. The...
Marian Ellen
DUTCH TRAWLER Walmer, Kent. At 8.44 a.m. on 5th January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the East Goodwin lightvessel reported an unidentified vessel, apparently aground on the Goodwin Sands, in a position west...
Ocean Starlight
At 5.30 a.m. on 5th February, 1967, news was received that a fishing vessel, while leaving Stornoway harbour, had stopped rather suddenly and drifted out of sight under the land inside Helm Head.No distress signals, however, had been seen or...
Chataway
wu KI.OW, Thursday February 13, 1986: the 42ft Watson class lifeboat. J. W. Archer, setting out at 132S on service in a gale force 8 to 9 south-easterly, to go to the aid of a catamaran some 20 miles to the south east of the station. The...
Barrus
Mariner doesn't just promise reliability.
It proves it! If you're considering buying an outboard, whatever the size, you'll have noticed that almost every manufacturer promises greater reliability as an...
Category: Advertisement
Michael Bowden, Full-Time Coxswain of the Appledore Lifeboat,
Today's lifeboatmen Michael Bowden, full-time coxswain of the Appledore lifeboat, first joined the station in 1971 as a crew member of the all-weather lifeboat.
Michael became an inshore lifeboat crew member in 1973,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Race to the pole
Race to the Pole
by James Cracknell
and Ben Fogle
Review by Charlie Cash
After conquering the perils of the Atlantic Ocean in an open boat, most people would wallow in the...
Category: Articles