LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Dover, Kent.—2nd October. The Hillman air liner G-ACPM crashed in the Channel, and broke in pieces, all seven on board being killed.—Rewards, £2 17s..

Lord Provost Margaret Smith accepts a painting of Aberdeen's all-weather lifeboat from Maitland Miller, Aberdeen station secretary Photo. Aberdeen City Council. - View image in PDF

PENARTH AND PORTISHEAD | 13 MARCH
RNLI crews from both sides of the Bristol Channel worked together to help a yacht that was taking on water 2 miles off Cardiff. Penarth volunteers refloated the grounded vessel and escorted her...

Eastbourne, Sussex. — 30th July, 1939. A small sailing yacht with three people on board was reported as missing, but she got in safely.—Rewards, £9 15*. 6d..

The ILB arrives and gets a line around Mr Steward but then finds itself unable to pull away as water threatens to swamp the lifeboat. - View image in PDF

The schooner Star, of St. Agnes, in attempting to come into Hayle, during a strong wind from the N.E. and a heavy sea, on, the 8th December, struck and grounded west of the bar. The Life-boat Isis quickly proceeded to her, and took off her...

A member of the Institution's staff, Mr. Thomas Edgar Langridge, was killed last Christmas morning. He was cycling along a snow-bound road in Wembley, near his home, when he collided with a motor car. Two hours later he died in hospital...

Coxswain James Campbell of Boul- mer died on the 18th of May, 1959, at the age of 79. He first joined the Boulmer crew in 1906, was bowman for nearly a year in 1929, and was then second coxswain for ten years. He was coxswain from 1939 to...