LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Portrait of a Coxswain
Coxswain John A. Fox, of the Shoreham Harbour, Sussex, life-boat Dorothy and Philip Constant. A member of the local crew since 1946, he was Second Coxswain from November, 1963, to April last year when he was promoted. Since 1946 Shoreham... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Barmouth Museum
Barmouth, Merionethshire, has opened a maritime museum in the upper part of the old boathouse on the quayside near where the IRB is stationed. While many exhibits have already been acquired the museum is anxious to obtain more life-boat...
Category: Articles
The Yoko Was Formerly the New Brighton, Cheshire, Reserve Life-Boat ON812
The Yoko was formerly the New Brighton, Cheshire, reserve life-boat ON812 Edmund and Mary Robinson built in 1938. She was a 41-foot Watson and in those days cost the R.N.L.I. £6,000 to build.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
EX-COXSWAIN HARRY LLOYD JONES
The death has taken place of ex-Coxswain Harry Lloyd Jones, formerly of Barmouth, Merionethshire, who took part in several daring rescues in Cardigan Bay. He was 70, and 12 years of his long service with the life-boats was spent as...
Category: Obituaries
Fee des Ondes
FRENCH RESCUED Youghal, Co. Cork. On 2yth October, 1963, the Youghal life-boat, Herbert John, rescued four men from the French trawler Fee des Ondes. A full account of this service, for which special awards were made to the coxswain and crew...
Birthday Honours
IN addition to those reported in the September number of the Life-boat on page 284 asjecipients of honours in the Birthday Honours List, the O.B.E. was bestowed on Mrs. M. Allport, chairman of the Bournemouth Ladies' Guild..
Category: Awards
Vert Rouwen
TWO LIFE-BOATS PUT OUT TO BELGIAN TRAWLER On the llth January, 1962, the Margate and Ramsgate life-boats put out to the help of the Belgian trawler Vert Rouwen, which had lost both her anchors in a gale. A full account of this service...
Index to Advertisers
Aegis Insurance Services (Group) Ltd 146 Functional Clothing Inside Front Cover Hamlyn Group (B.A.S.H. Ltd) Outside Back Cover David Jolly (Tiller Master) 779 Maritime Book Society Inside Back Cover Mercantile Credit 779 Peeks of Bournemouth...
Category: Index
Hunstanton's Atlantic 21Class Lifeboat Spirit of America
Hunstanton's Atlantic 21class lifeboat Spirit of America is capable of some 29 knots. Helmsman Alan Clarke said of her: 'Speed is one of her greatest assets and can be paramount in saving life - but she can only be driven as hard as... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Workboat 90
Come and join WORKBOAT THE EUROPEAN TRADE EXHIBITION FOR SMALL COMMERCIAL CRAFT & EQUIPMENT The U.K.'s Small Commercial Craft Industry has expanded to a size that requires its own specialist exhibition - where commercial craft, their...
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