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Portrait of a Coxswain

Date: March 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 415

COXSWAIN ROBERT BUCHAN of the Humber is the superintendent coxswain of the only full-time life-boat crew in Britain or Ireland. He was appointed coxswain in 1959 having served for seven years as a member of the crew. During six of those...

Category: Articles

The Merchant Shipping Act (Conclusion)

Date: July 1855

Volume: 02

Issue: 17

IN our further observations on the Merchant Shipping Act, we come to the consideration of those parts of it which have more immediately to do with the Preservation of Life from, or AFTER Shipwreck, or other casualty at sea. An object which,...

Category: Articles

News from the Branches

Date: November 1929

Volume: 27

Issue: 300

1st July to 30th September.

Leaflets {or the Help of Honorary Secretaries and Collectors.

WE think that our Honorary Workers will like to have the following list of the leaflets (which have just been...

Category: Branches

Gonslave, of Nantes

Date: July 1859

Volume: 04

Issue: 33

On the 8th March, 1859, the French brigantine Gonscdve, of Nantes, got embayed off Padstow, and, on making for the harbour, was caught by the eddy winds at the entrance, and driven by the tide and heavy sea on to the Doombar Sand, when her...

Border Chieftain, of Hartlepool

Date: October 1865

Volume: 05

Issue: 58

— On the 19th March, as the brig Border Chieftain, of Hartlepool, was coming into the Tyne under charge of a pilot, a sea struck her steering wheel, injuring the man at the helm, and she was driven on the Stones south of the North Pier,...

The Recent Storms

Date: January 1868

Volume: 06

Issue: 67

OF all the stormy periods which have found noble work for our Life-boat Fleet, and which have tried the mettle of the brave fellows by whom it is manned, perhaps none have exceeded in violence and destructiveness that of the last few weeks....

Category: Articles

(Left) the One-Twelfth Scale Model of Mumbles Lifeboat and Boathouse

Date: Autumn 1997

Volume: 56

Issue: 542

(left) The one-twelfth scale model of Mumbles lifeboat and boathouse during the filming of 'Dangerous Coast'. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs