LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At 5.30 p.m. on nth August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Belgian yacht Nan Shan had been taken in tow by the coaster Windsor Queen. The yacht's crew of three were on board the coaster and she requested...

By Captain HOWARD F. J. ROWLEY, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-boats.

I GAVE an account, in The Life-Boat for May, 1920, of the reasons which had led the Institution to look for some mechanical means for launching...

THE fishwives of Cullercoats this year collected £139 at their quarterly road exercise and launch of the life-boat.

This is their sixteenth annual collection, and they have collected altogether over...

THE great storm of the 31st of January —1st of February, 1953, has had a chronicler of distinction in Mr. J.

Lennox Kerr.* Mr. Kerr has recorded the happen- ings at sea around our coasts on those two extraordinary days when...

The Lamorna ashore at Christchurch. Her crew of fourteen had been rescued near The Needles by the Yarmouth, Isle of Wight life-boat (See page 308). - View image in PDF

THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain H. O. Thomas of Torbay. He became assistant motor mechanic of the Torbay life-boat in February 1941 and ten years later was appointed coxswain. He was awarded the bronze medal for gallantry for the...

LAUNCH TO LIGHTVESSEL FOR SICK MAN Eastbourne, Sussex. At 11.15 on the morning of the 1st March, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary treasurer that a member of the crew of the Royal Sovereign lightvessel was sick and needed hospital...

Below: (left) The boathouse provides plenty of room for all three of the station's lifeboats and (right) all the necessary launching equipment. - View image in PDF