LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE fishwives of Cullercoats carried out their ninth consecutive collection on behalf of the Institution on 2nd August, when the Cullercoats Life-boat held its quarterly road exercise and launch.

Over £156 was...

Dover, Kent.—On the 4th of January, 1955, the Superintendent of Trinity House at Harwich asked if the life- boat would land an injured fog-signal driver from the South Goodwin light- vessel, as the weather was too bad for a shore-boat to put...

Coxswain George Leith, of the Lerwick, Shetland, lifeboat, who helped to rescue the crew of nine of the trawler Granton Osprey on December 13, 1972, is this year's recipient of the £5 'The Maud Smith Award for courage, in memory...

APRIL 28TH. - BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. At 9.45 at night a message was received from the Carnoustie coastguard station that a fishing boat was in need of help a mile and a half east-south-east of the station. A strong north-west wind was...

WEXFORD, IRELAND. — On the 2nd April the lightship's tender steamship Belle, of Wexford, stranded during a strong S.S.W. gale on the bar at the mouth of the river, and the Life-boat James Stevens No. 15 was despatched with promptness to...

THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Harry Burgess, who has been coxswain of the Lowestoft life-boat since 1947. He served as second cox- swain for nearly a year, and as bowman from 1931 to 1936"and 1937 to 1946..

A LARGE CROWD gathered at Selsey on April 25 for the handing over and dedication of the station's new D class lifeboat which is the gift of Selsey Lions Club. The lifeboat was presented by Mr A. E. Ryan, president of Selsey Lions, to...

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