LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

You would have to have exceptional hearing to claim that New Maiden in South London was within the sound of Bow Bells, but this did not deter Alice Hodgkin (r), catering manager of Spillers Foods, New Maiden from organising a Cockney evening... - View image in PDF

Hartlepool crew battled to save a 16-year-old boy stuck waist-deep in sand with a rapidly rising tide on 30 September 2011. The boy had got his foot caught when helping two younger members of his family from the water. The crew used a hose...

The Life-boat Four Sisters pro- ceeded through a heavy westerly gale to the Eaxel, a schooner belonging to Mil- ford, which, on the 9th December, was wrecked neat the Owers Lightship. A heavy surf raged along the beach, and a long struggle...

ner, this Life-boat was again called off to another vessel, the brig Lisbon,,vhich, after daylight, was seen to be aground on the same sand. On boarding her, the master and mate were found in an ex- hausted condition, having been in the...

RAMSGATE.—During a fresh gale from the E.N.E., with snow and hail, on the 20th November, signals were fired by the Goodwin Sands Lightships, and a barque was seen ashore on the Sands. The Bradford Life-boat proceeded to her assistance, in...

Whilst the motor Life-boat, which has been sent very recently to Sunderland, was out for exercise on the 21st June, the Coxswain observed a small boat about three and a half miles off the port show- ing signals of distress. He immediately...

Coxswain Robert McMullan, of Portrush, Co. Antrim, a professional fisherman, was appointed Second Coxswain in 1940 and Coxswain in 1964. His life-boat is the Lady Scott (Civil Service No. 4), a 46 foot 9 inch Watson, which was built in 1949.... - View image in PDF

THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain H. O. Thomas of Torbay. He became assistant motor mechanic of the Torbay life-boat in February 1941 and ten years later was appointed coxswain. He was awarded the bronze medal for gallantry for the...