LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Record of Campbeltown, Southend and Machrihanish (Argyllshire).IT will be remembered that in the last issue of The Lifeboat we published a table showing the length of service of j the Committees of a number of the j Institution's...

RELIABILITY ON THE SEAS...

Fairey Marinteknik & R.N.L.I A SUCCESSFUL COMBINATION m The Cowes Shipyard has a long and proud history associated with the "Royal Lifeboat Institution": As early as 1929/30 the...

SOUTHPORT.—The Life-boat Eliza Fernley launched at 5 A.M. on the 28th May, during a gale, and proceeded to the assistance of the brigantine Pembrokeshire Lass, of Milford, which vessel had gone ashore during the night, on the Teds Bank....

Similar service was rendered by this Life-boat on the 10th May when five cobles were in great danger, the sea having risen very suddenly. The Lifeboat was afloat three hours, and all the boats were got safely iuto the...

At 1.30 A.M.

on the 6th May a sailing trawler was observed on the North Bank, and the No. 2 Life-boat Leicester was launched to her assistance. She stood by the vessel until she commenced to break up ; the crew of four...

DURING the winter Captain G. C.

Holloway, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., a member of the Committee of Manage- ment, has visited the principal Sea Training Ships for boys and given lectures, illustrated with films or slides, on the...

COXSWAIN FREDERICK LAKER of Shoreham died on the 6th of Novem- ber, 1953, at the age of 73. He was appointed coxswain of the Shoreham Harbour life-boat when the station was re-opened in 1929. He remained coxswain until he retired in 1940.<...

For their work - the story of the rescue attempts that night took up over four pages of THE LIFE-BOAT for November, 1927 - a total of 38 medals and vellums were given together with medals from the Italian government of the...