LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

PORTRAIT OF A COXSWAIN 314 NOTES OF THE QUARTER 315 COXSWAIN SWARTS 316 BRAVERY AT TORBAY 317 CHAIRMAN'S NAME 318 CONGRATULATIONS TO IRISH MECHANIC 319 MAUD SMITH AWARD 319 AWARDS TO TWO COXSWAINS 320 FOCUS ON ANGLE 321 CHRISTMAS CARDS...

Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland - At 5.57 p.m. on 4th September, 1966, a catamaran sailing in Berwick Bay was reported to have fired a red flare.

At 6.2 the life-boat William and Mary Durham was launched in a strong west...

SCOTLAND THIS SUMMER Explore the romantic western isles or the glorious Clyde estuary on one of our 20 Self Sail charter yachts. Choose from Rivals, Nicholsons, Fishers, Sabres etc, or join an exciting skippered cruise and learn the ropes...

Thomas Cocking (Snr), full-time coxswain of St Ives lifeboat between 1976 and 1989. Thomas joined the crew in 1952, and was appointed bowman in 1955, second coxswain in 1965 and retained coxswain in 1967.

Thomas was also a...

To WM. HENRY TRIPP, on his retirement, after serving 12J years as Bowman, 3J years as Second Coxswain, and nearly 14 years as Coxswain of the Porthoustock Life-boat, a Framed Certificate of Service and a Pension.

To MATTHEW...

THE ORIGINAL T I L L E R MASTER celebrates 10 years of Ocean crossing We stock LOCAT, the powerful British personal Radio Distress Beacon that saved the life of Atlantic rower, Ken Kerr.

Wind, water and solar battery...

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Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—31st October, 1939. It had been reported that a raft with men on board could be seen off Wicklow Head. A strong gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. A rowing skiff put out from Wicklow as well as the motor life-boat...