LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Frank Smith, coxswain/ mechanic of Salcombe lifeboat since 1988. He first joined the crew in 1970 and was emergency mechanic from 1973 to 1981 when he was appointed mechanic.

From 1984 to 1988 he served as second coxswain /... - View image in PDF

APRIL 22ND. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. During the evening the yacht Brionieran aground two miles W.S.W. of Selsey Bill, while on passage from Lymington to Newhaven with a crew of three. A N.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderately rough sea.

THE first life-boat of the Oakley class was named J. G. Graves of Sheffield at a ceremony at the Scarborough lifeboathouse on the 11th of June, 1959.

The life-boat was a gift of the J. G. Graves Charitable Trust, and Mrs....

Unseen dangers The sea looked calm and safe at Forth beach, Cornwall, on 18 June 2005 but for two tired swimmers, the winds and currents were life threateningThe public were enjoying a sunny day at the beach, unaware that a boy and a girl...

LIFE-BOAT HOUSE at the British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, will again be open this year. Life-boat workers will be doing the Institution a real service if they will bring this to the notice of any friends who are visiting London during the...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.— At 4.34 in the morning of the 24th of September, 1949, the Gorleston coast- guard telephoned that the Cross Sand Lightvessel, which had a crew of seven, had reported that she had been in collision and...

BESIDES the exhibition on the South Bank of the Thames there were two travelling exhibitions. One by sea and the other by land. The exhibition by sea was mounted in the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Campania, which sailed from Southampton early in...

THE new Aberdeen life-boat Hilton Briggs, of the 52-feet Barnett (Strom- ness) type, which left the building yard at Cowes on the 17th of August of last year, broke her journey by sea to her station, to travel up the River Trent from Hull...