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Portrait of a Coxswain

Date: December 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 422

COXSWAIN EDWARD G. WILLIAMS, of the llfracombe life-boat Lloyd's II. A member of the local crew since 1928, Coxswain Williams was appointed second coxswain in December, 1948, and coxswain in January, 1953.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Duke of Northumberland's Prize Life-Boat Essay Competition

Date: September 1926

Volume: 26

Issue: 287

IT is very pleasant to be able to record that this Competition is growing both in popularity and in the extent to which schools in every part of Great Britain are taking part in it. Unfortunately, owing to the political situation, the...

Category: Articles

Olive, of Banff

Date: November 1904

Volume: 19

Issue: 214

WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE. — On the 26th February, while the fishing boat Olive, of Banff, was attempting to put to sea in a moderate S.E. breeze, but rather rough sea, she grounded on a sandbankat the mouth of the harbour, when a huge wave...

A Drifter

Date: April 1940

Volume: 31

Issue: 341

Ramsey, Isle of Man.—26th October, 1939. A drifter had been reported as flying distress signals, but she got into the shelter of Douglas Bay unaided.

The life-boat was out for nearly five hours in a gale with a heavy sea.—...

Flying Fish, of Whitby

Date: July 1861

Volume: 04

Issue: 41

on 10th Nov., saved 5 men from the brig Flying Fish, of Whitby;.

Gloucester, of South Shields

Date: July 1861

Volume: 04

Issue: 41

on 30th Dec., saved 7 men from the brig Gloucester, of South Shields..

William, of Morecambe

Date: July 1861

Volume: 04

Issue: 41

on 9th Feb., saved 5 men from the schooner William, of Morecambe..

Portrait of a Coxswain

Date: April 1970

Volume: 41

Issue: 431

Coxswain Kenneth J. Holland, of the Skegness, Lincolnshire, life-boat Charles Fred Gran- tham. A member of the local life-boat crew since 1947, he was first appointed coxswain in 1965 and then full-time coxswain/mechanic in 1968. Since he...

Category: Articles

Increase of British Shipping

Date: February 1881

Volume: 11

Issue: 119

THOSE who are old enough to remember the repeal of the navigation laws describe the state of feeling that prevailed among the shipowning class when the measure was carried safely through Parliament as one of absolute panic. Nothing but the...

Category: Articles

Pride of the Ocean

Date: November 1885

Volume: 12

Issue: 138

ST. ANDREW'S.—The fishing boat Pride of the Ocean, belonging to St. Andrew's, and returning from fishing at Shetland, was seen making for the harbour, at about 5 A.M., on the 9th April, during a strong N.E. wind, and a very rough sea...