LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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1. Coxswain/mechanic - Mersey class lifeboat The coxswain is responsible for all decisions om the lifeboat is at sea and for the safety of the boat and its crew. At this station the coxswain is also the full-time mechani has to make sure... - View image in PDF

Among the awards announced in the Birthday Honours list were: KCVO Captain Alastair Sturgis Aird, cvo.

Sir Alastair is Comptroller and Equerry to HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, a Patron of the...

Annual Meetings: Financial Branches and Guilds.

CHELTENHAM.—On 18th July, Mrs.

Richard Davies, Chairman, presiding.

The report for the year ending 30th September, 1926, showed that...

The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, the Right Reverend Professor James A. Whyte, paid a visit to Aberdeen lifeboat station on 7 February.

The Moderator was introduced to Captain Brian Atkinson,...

Launches 6 Lives rescued 3 COURTOWN, Co. WEXFORD. At 5.40 in the afternoon of the 22nd of October, 1942, the honorary agent received information that the local motor fishing boat St. Mary was in difficulties about three miles to the north of...

Appledore, Devon.—During the afternoon of the 29th March the motor barge Invincible, of Appledore, was swamped when between Middle Ridge and Bar Buoy in the Torridge estuary. She carried a crew of three, and was bound for Appledore, laden...

THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Thomas Moore Horn, of Exmouth, Devon. He was shore-signalman from 1908 until 1919. From 1920 to 1928 he served as second coxswain and since 1928 he has been coxswain. On 15th January, 1938, he won the...