LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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COXSWAIN ALBERT SPURGEON, of Lowestoft, who died on the 5th of April, 1953, at the age of 73, had been one of the Institution's most distin- guished coxswains. According to the local records he joined the life-boat crew in his teens, and...

The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life- belt are— 1. Sufficient extra-buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...

At 6.45 P.M. on the 6th July a message was received from the Coastguard at Walton that the Gunfleet Lighthouse had reported a vessel ashore on the Sunk Sands. The sea was smooth, with a swell on the Sands, and a moderate...

Swanage, Dorset, and Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 6.10 P.M. on the 6thAugust, 1939, the coastguard informed the life-boat station at Swanage that a sailing yacht had capsized off Christchurch Ledge Buoy, and the motor lifeboat Thomas Markby...

SICK MAN LANDED FROM U.S.

TROOPSHIP Penlee, Cornwall. At 9.30 a.m. on Wednesday the 21st of August, 1963, the second coxswain received a telephone message from the honorary secretary that the United States troopship Upshur,...

AUG. 6TH. - SWANAGE, DORSET, AND YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 6.10 P.M.. the coastguard informed the life-boat station at Swanage that a sailing yacht had capsized off Christchurch Ledge Buoy, and the motor life-boat Thomas Markby was...

Mr. John Fisher has had the interesting idea of assembling in Storms (Adlard Coles, 15/-) accounts of some of the greatest storms in history. They include the great gales of 1703, when 8,000 men and women were reported to have been drowned...