LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

TROON, N.B.—This seaport town in Ayrshire having been suggested to the Institution as a desirable station for a Life- boat, and local co-operation having been afforded to the proposed undertaking, such a lx).it has accordingly been placed...

JANUARY MEETING SOUTHAMPTON WATER, HAMPSHIRE. At 6.30 in the evening of the 11th of October, 1944, six cadets set off from Millbrook Pier in a dinghy for the training-ship Moyana, 200 yards away. A strong south-west wind was blowing. The sea...

South Western Division Stood by in storm ON SATURDAY December 15, 1979, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Padstow lifeboat station that a vessel three miles north west of Trevose Head had transmitted a mayday distress signal...

BY the death of Major Ernest Read Cooper, of Woodbridge, Suffolk, on the llth of February, at the age of 83, the Life-boat Service lost an old and distinguished friend. Born at Blythburgh, Suffolk, in 1865,- he spent the greater part of his...

Margate, Kent.—At 7.3 on the morn- ing of the 4th of April, 1957, the coast- guard telephoned that two vessels had been in collision one mile north-east of Spit buoy. The life-boat St. Mary's, on temporary duty at the station, was...

Dinghy adrift off Inchcolm AT 1644 on the afternoon of December 8, 1974, Queensferry honorary treasurer, who was deputising for the honorary secretary, was informed by the Coastguard that a man was in difficulty in a small dinghy off...

Cliff rescue and yacht crew landed in one serviceThe ability of the Institution's inflatable lifeboats to work close inshore was well illustrated by a service carried out by Exmouth's D class on 13 August 1988 - a service which also...

Henry 'Shrimp' Davies Former Cromer coxswain (see right) deaths Henry 'Shrimp' Davies Henry Davies was given the nickname 'Shrimp' after his famous uncle, coxswain Henry Blogg, saw him as a tiny...