LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Henry Albert (Buller) Griggs, of Hythe, Kent. He was second cox- swain for two and a half years, and for over nineteen years has been coxswain; so that he has been an officer of the life-boat for...

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Against the flow – the first woman to sail solo the ‘wrong way’ around the world
by Dee Caffari
Review by Tim Robertson

The comparisons are inevitable I suppose – two women competing solo in a...

Chief Inspector of Life-boats (This paper was read at the 7th International Life-boat Conference held in Lisbon in June, 1955.) Ix Great Britain and Ireland the verv varying nature of the shore creates many problems, and the methods of...

On the morning of the 6th May it was reported that a distress signal had been hoisted on the s.s. Ocklinge, a steamer which had been wrecked on Lowland Point in March, 1932, and which had since been bought for breaking up. There were three...

THE photograph of Coxswain Blogg, of Cromer, on the cover, was taken by Illustrated in 1940, and is reproduced by its very kind permission..

Shortly before Sam on Saturday, 10 March, both Lough Swilly lifeboats were called to rescue a burning fishing vessel. Mulroy Coastguard also launched and rescued the skipper, who had abandoned the burning vessel and was in a liferaft. He was...

The final hull form of the Mersey, seen during the self-righting trials of ON 1125, a pre-production prototype. (Photo Downland Studios). - View image in PDF